Spring/Summer 2025 may 2025 6 × 9 in. 392 pp. 14 color and 36 b&w illus. paper $26.95 t isbn 9780821426258
The Lion’s Historian
Larks
Payne Hollow
Land Hunger
Africa’s Animal Past
Poems
Life on the Fringe of Society
Ohio and the Western Frontiers
Sandra Swart
Han VanderHart
Harlan Hubbard
Mansel G. Blackford
The Lion’s Historian offers a new way to understand history by considering animal cultures as inseparable from human history. Sandra Swart argues that animal sentience, agency, and cognition inflect the Anthropocene with a novel, usable past that offers more-than-human solutions to living in today’s world.
This collection of lyric poems traces genealogies of trauma and healing within a southern family. Han VanderHart deftly weaves together documentary poetics with Ovidian mythology to narrate, ultimately, a story of survival.
A poetic illustrated memoir of the simple, self-sufficient life Harlan Hubbard and his wife, Anna, led in remote Kentucky for over three decades beginning in the early 1950s. The book reflects their philosophy of simplicity, art, and solitude, advocating for a mindful, deliberate life connected to the environment and in harmony with nature.
Land Hunger narrates a history of frontiers in the Ohio Country, the Great Plains, and the Oregon Country. It examines how Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro Americans interacted on important US frontiers and viewed, used, and adapted to environments new to them, just as present-day Americans are having to adapt to climate change.
april 2025 5½ × 8½ in. 96 pp. paper $17.95 t isbn 9780821425916
hollis summers poetry prize
available 5½ × 7 in. 176 pp. 29 b&w illus. paper $19.95 t isbn 9780917788666
gnomon press
june 2025 5 × 7½ in. 194 pp. paper $22.95 t isbn 9780821426388
For You, I’d Steal a Goat
Kinfolks
Short Stories
The Wilgus Stories
Niq Mhlongo
Gurney Norman
Niq Mhlongo presents a collection that explores love, life, loss, corruption, gender, family, and friendship with a distinctly South African sense of humor that narrates the everyday lives of Black South Africans together with their hopes, joys, and anguishes.
Kinfolks is a novelistic collection of short stories centered around Wilgus Collier, a young boy growing up in rural Kentucky during the 1940s and 1950s. The stories follow Wilgus from childhood into early adulthood, exploring his relationships with his extended family and Appalachian community.
modern african writing
available 5½ × 7 in. 128 pp. paper $16.95 t isbn 9780917788109
gnomon press
may 2025 6 × 9 in. 200 pp. 1 b&w illus. paper $24.95 t isbn 9780821426364 cloth $80.00 s isbn 9780821426357
new approaches to midwestern studies
West Virginia’s War
The Brier Poems
The Civil War in Documents Jim Wayne Miller
available 6 × 91/4 in. 176 pp. paper $18.95 t isbn 9780917788628
Published in 1997 by Gnomon Press, this poetry collection vividly captures Appalachian life. Jim Wayne Miller explores identity, tradition, and deep ties to the land as he celebrates the spirit and resilience of the region and gives voice to overlooked rural experiences. gnomon press
William Kerrigan, ed.
june 2025 5½ × 81/4 in. 292 pp. 15 b&w illus. paper $25.95 s isbn 9780821426401
Challenging the conventional historiographical emphasis on military battles, West Virginia’s War uses documents from that tumultuous time to reveal how the state’s soldiers and citizens experienced the Civil War. the civil war in the great interior