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The winner of the 2019 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize was If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the winner of the 2018 prize was The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. Both winners were selected by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass. The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize is awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily

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She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California. The Swank Hotel by Lucy Corrin. October 5, 2021. 978-1-64445-066-6. Paperback Original $17. 176 pages 5.5" x 8.25".

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ON FREEDOM | GRAYWOLF PRESS On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom

in ways

ABUNDANCE | GRAYWOLF PRESS Evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a

THE ART OF REVISION

In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision—even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and SO MUCH FOR THAT WINTER A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors’s unique wit and humor. $15.00. ISBN. SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction “Jagged yet subtle. . . . The structure keeps upending the ordinary. reads like a picaresque in a nutshell, tightly confined yet full of reversals.Some are swift as a finger-snap, others unfold like a ballad. . . .

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What images or other associations come to mind with the word “citizen”? Citizen narrates a series of interactions, or micro-aggressions, often using the pronoun “you,” to include the reader as a responsible party in the events GRAYWOLF PRESSBOOKSEVENTSSUPPORT GRAYWOLFABOUT USINTO ENGLISHDON'T

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Graywolf Press is a nonprofit publisher of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and genre-defying literature whose aim is to foster new thinking about what it means to live in the world today. More About

Graywolf.

BOOKS | GRAYWOLF PRESSSILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUECINDERBITERAMERICAN HARVESTABOUT USSPACE INVADERSLOG IN About Graywolf Press. Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature.

SUBMISSIONS

The winner of the 2019 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize was If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the winner of the 2018 prize was The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. Both winners were selected by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass. The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize is awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily

FALL 2021 CATALOG

She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California. The Swank Hotel by Lucy Corrin. October 5, 2021. 978-1-64445-066-6. Paperback Original $17. 176 pages 5.5" x 8.25".

Brit.,

ON FREEDOM | GRAYWOLF PRESS On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom

in ways

ABUNDANCE | GRAYWOLF PRESS Evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a

THE ART OF REVISION

In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision—even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and SO MUCH FOR THAT WINTER A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors’s unique wit and humor. $15.00. ISBN. SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction “Jagged yet subtle. . . . The structure keeps upending the ordinary. reads like a picaresque in a nutshell, tightly confined yet full of reversals.Some are swift as a finger-snap, others unfold like a ballad. . . .

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What images or other associations come to mind with the word “citizen”? Citizen narrates a series of interactions, or micro-aggressions, often using the pronoun “you,” to include the reader as a responsible party in the events ABOUT US | GRAYWOLF PRESS Graywolf Press is committed to making our books, programming, publishing process, and workplace accessible to communities and individuals of all backgrounds and abilities. We invite accessibility feedback and requests for accommodation. Please contact us by email ( access@graywolfpress.org) or by phone (651-641-0077) with any requests

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She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California. The Swank Hotel by Lucy Corrin. October 5, 2021. 978-1-64445-066-6. Paperback Original $17. 176 pages 5.5" x 8.25".

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GRAYWOLF PRESS NONFICTION PRIZE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS January 21, 2020. *Update: The Graywolf Nonfiction Prize is now closed*. Graywolf is looking for innovative literary nonfiction projects, from essay to memoir to narrative nonfiction, from writers who are not yet established in the genre of nonfiction. The prize has an emphasis on work that tests the boundaries of nonfiction in form

and content

BOARD AND STAFF

Graywolf Press is led by Director and Publisher Fiona McCrae. Our Board of Directors has between twenty and twenty-five members and provides fiduciary oversight of Graywolf’s operations. We have awarded Board Emeritus status to former board members who have made a significant impact in the history of the press. The National Council is an informed advisory group of donors and friends across DUPLEX | GRAYWOLF PRESS Duplex is a traditional love story tucked inside an adult fairy tale, wrapped in science fiction. . . . I wouldn't take back one minute of reading.” —NPR, “All Things Considered”. “The point of most speculative fiction is to create a world that elevates contemporary social anxieties to the level of nightmare. Duplex SILENCE IS MY MOTHER TONGUE Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction “Jagged yet subtle. . . . The structure keeps upending the ordinary. reads like a picaresque in a nutshell, tightly confined yet full of reversals.Some are swift as a finger-snap, others unfold like a ballad. . . .

DON'T CALL US DEAD

Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. MY NAME WILL GROW WIDE LIKE A TREE Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in

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What images or other associations come to mind with the word “citizen”? Citizen narrates a series of interactions, or micro-aggressions, often using the pronoun “you,” to include the reader as a responsible party in the events GRAYWOLF PRESSBOOKSEVENTSSUPPORT GRAYWOLFABOUT USINTO ENGLISHDON'T

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SUBMISSIONS

The winner of the 2019 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize was If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the winner of the 2018 prize was The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. Both winners were selected by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass. The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize is awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily ON FREEDOM | GRAYWOLF PRESS On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom

in ways

GRAYWOLF PRESS NONFICTION PRIZE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS January 21, 2020. *Update: The Graywolf Nonfiction Prize is now closed*. Graywolf is looking for innovative literary nonfiction projects, from essay to memoir to narrative nonfiction, from writers who are not yet established in the genre of nonfiction. The prize has an emphasis on work that tests the boundaries of nonfiction in form

and content

ABUNDANCE | GRAYWOLF PRESS Evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a

THE ART OF REVISION

In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision—even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and SO MUCH FOR THAT WINTER A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors’s unique wit and humor. $15.00. ISBN.

THE GNOME STORIES

The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace—or at least a sense of purpose—in peculiar jobs and pursuits. A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors’ homes.

PILGRIM BELL

Richly crafted and generous, Pilgrim Bell ’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song

DISCUSSION GUIDE

What images or other associations come to mind with the word “citizen”? Citizen narrates a series of interactions, or micro-aggressions, often using the pronoun “you,” to include the reader as a responsible party in the events GRAYWOLF PRESSBOOKSEVENTSSUPPORT GRAYWOLFABOUT USINTO ENGLISHDON'T

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Graywolf Press is a nonprofit publisher of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and genre-defying literature whose aim is to foster new thinking about what it means to live in the world today. More About

Graywolf.

SUBMISSIONS

The winner of the 2019 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize was If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the winner of the 2018 prize was The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. Both winners were selected by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass. The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize is awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily ON FREEDOM | GRAYWOLF PRESS On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom

in ways

GRAYWOLF PRESS NONFICTION PRIZE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS January 21, 2020. *Update: The Graywolf Nonfiction Prize is now closed*. Graywolf is looking for innovative literary nonfiction projects, from essay to memoir to narrative nonfiction, from writers who are not yet established in the genre of nonfiction. The prize has an emphasis on work that tests the boundaries of nonfiction in form

and content

ABUNDANCE | GRAYWOLF PRESS Evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a

THE ART OF REVISION

In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision—even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and SO MUCH FOR THAT WINTER A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors’s unique wit and humor. $15.00. ISBN.

THE GNOME STORIES

The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace—or at least a sense of purpose—in peculiar jobs and pursuits. A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors’ homes.

PILGRIM BELL

Richly crafted and generous, Pilgrim Bell ’s linguistic rigor is tuned to the register of this moment and any moment. As the swinging soul crashes into its limits, against the atrocities of the American empire, and through a profoundly human capacity for cruelty and grace, these brilliant poems dare to exist in the empty space where song

DISCUSSION GUIDE

What images or other associations come to mind with the word “citizen”? Citizen narrates a series of interactions, or micro-aggressions, often using the pronoun “you,” to include the reader as a responsible party in the events BOOKS | GRAYWOLF PRESS About Graywolf Press. Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature.

FALL 2021 CATALOG

She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Rome Prize and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Berkeley, California. The Swank Hotel by Lucy Corrin. October 5, 2021. 978-1-64445-066-6. Paperback Original $17. 176 pages 5.5" x 8.25".

Brit.,

THE GRAYWOLF ANNUAL FIVE "All of the essays are worthy, readable, and provocative—a few are sublime."—Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesThe issue of cultural literacy has been the subject of intense debate in the past two years. Several bestselling books about the deficiencies of our educational system as well as changes in basic curriculum at more than one major university have contributed to the fervor of this PURGATORIO | GRAYWOLF PRESS Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In Purgatorio, still guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante emerges from the horrors of Hell to begin the climb up Mount Purgatory, a seven-terrace mountain with each level devoted to those atoning for one of the DUPLEX | GRAYWOLF PRESS Duplex is a traditional love story tucked inside an adult fairy tale, wrapped in science fiction. . . . I wouldn't take back one minute of reading.” —NPR, “All Things Considered”. “The point of most speculative fiction is to create a world that elevates contemporary social anxieties to the level of nightmare. Duplex

THE ART OF SUBTEXT

The Art Of series, edited by Charles Baxter, is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on an important craft issue. Each book investigates an aspect of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present.

PILGRIM BELL

“Working at and along the outer edges of language, Pilgrim Bell calls us to attention and to attend to that which poetry and prayer share, while simultaneously demanding that we tend to the political, the social, the erotic—all that is quotidian and human. . . . Kaveh Akbar, ‘God’s incarnate spit in the mud,’ takes us down to the ground, to the prosaic, the dismissed and overlooked

THE HOUSE OF RUST

The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying

sea monsters.

A POSTCARD MEMOIR

A Postcard Memoir. “Sutin’s ingeniously constructed memoir uses duotone reproductions of postcards—by turns nostalgic, quaint or exotic—as Rorschach blots to evoke his deepest memories and feelings. Here he writes about typical events—Little League, his discovery of sex, bar mitzvah, past loves—but imbues his

reminiscences of

URBAN TUMBLEWEED

Urban Tumbleweed is poet Harryette Mullen’s exploration of spaces where the city and the natural world collide. Written out of a daily practice of walking, Mullen’s stanzas adapt the traditional Japanese tanka, a poetic form suited for recording fleeting impressions, describing environmental transitions, and contemplating the human being’s place in the natural world. GRAYWOLF PRESSBOOKSEVENTSSUPPORT GRAYWOLFABOUT USINTO ENGLISHDON'T

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Graywolf Press is a nonprofit publisher of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and genre-defying literature whose aim is to foster new thinking about what it means to live in the world today. More About

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ABOUT US | GRAYWOLF PRESS Graywolf Press is committed to making our books, programming, publishing process, and workplace accessible to communities and individuals of all backgrounds and abilities. We invite accessibility feedback and requests for accommodation. Please contact us by email ( access@graywolfpress.org) or by phone (651-641-0077) with any requests

for ADA

SUBMISSIONS

The winner of the 2019 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize was If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the winner of the 2018 prize was The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. Both winners were selected by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass. The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize is awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily JUST US | GRAYWOLF PRESS Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the

voting booth

ON FREEDOM | GRAYWOLF PRESS On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom

in ways

SO MUCH FOR THAT WINTER A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors’s unique wit and humor. $15.00. ISBN. ABUNDANCE | GRAYWOLF PRESS Evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a GRAYWOLF PRESS NONFICTION PRIZE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS January 21, 2020. *Update: The Graywolf Nonfiction Prize is now closed*. Graywolf is looking for innovative literary nonfiction projects, from essay to memoir to narrative nonfiction, from writers who are not yet established in the genre of nonfiction. The prize has an emphasis on work that tests the boundaries of nonfiction in form

and content

THE ART OF REVISION

In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision—even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and MY NAME WILL GROW WIDE LIKE A TREE Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in GRAYWOLF PRESSBOOKSEVENTSSUPPORT GRAYWOLFABOUT USINTO ENGLISHDON'T

CALL US DEAD

Graywolf Press is a nonprofit publisher of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and genre-defying literature whose aim is to foster new thinking about what it means to live in the world today. More About

Graywolf.

ABOUT US | GRAYWOLF PRESS Graywolf Press is committed to making our books, programming, publishing process, and workplace accessible to communities and individuals of all backgrounds and abilities. We invite accessibility feedback and requests for accommodation. Please contact us by email ( access@graywolfpress.org) or by phone (651-641-0077) with any requests

for ADA

SUBMISSIONS

The winner of the 2019 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize was If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the winner of the 2018 prize was The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. Both winners were selected by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass. The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize is awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily JUST US | GRAYWOLF PRESS Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the

voting booth

ON FREEDOM | GRAYWOLF PRESS On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept’s complexities in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom

in ways

SO MUCH FOR THAT WINTER A cheeky nod to the listicles and bulletins we scroll through on a daily basis, So Much for That Winter explores how we shape and understand experience, and the disconnection and dislocation that define our twenty-first-century lives, with Nors’s unique wit and humor. $15.00. ISBN. ABUNDANCE | GRAYWOLF PRESS Evicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve, Henry and his son, Junior, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later, things are even more desperate. Henry, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids, is down to his last pocketful of dollars, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday, and Henry has a GRAYWOLF PRESS NONFICTION PRIZE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS January 21, 2020. *Update: The Graywolf Nonfiction Prize is now closed*. Graywolf is looking for innovative literary nonfiction projects, from essay to memoir to narrative nonfiction, from writers who are not yet established in the genre of nonfiction. The prize has an emphasis on work that tests the boundaries of nonfiction in form

and content

THE ART OF REVISION

In The Art of Revision: The Last Word, Peter Ho Davies takes up an often discussed yet frequently misunderstood subject. He begins by addressing the invisibility of revision—even though it’s an essential part of the writing process, readers typically only see a final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. To combat this, Davies pulls examples from his novels The Welsh Girl and MY NAME WILL GROW WIDE LIKE A TREE Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in BOOKS | GRAYWOLF PRESS About Graywolf Press. Graywolf Press is a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature.

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GRAYWOLF PRESS NONFICTION PRIZE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS January 21, 2020. *Update: The Graywolf Nonfiction Prize is now closed*. Graywolf is looking for innovative literary nonfiction projects, from essay to memoir to narrative nonfiction, from writers who are not yet established in the genre of nonfiction. The prize has an emphasis on work that tests the boundaries of nonfiction in form

and content

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Graywolf Press is led by Director and Publisher Fiona McCrae. Our Board of Directors has between twenty and twenty-five members and provides fiduciary oversight of Graywolf’s operations. We have awarded Board Emeritus status to former board members who have made a significant impact in the history of the press. The National Council is an informed advisory group of donors and friends across

THE OVERHAUL

The Overhaul continues Kathleen Jamie’s lyric inquiry into the aspects of the world our rushing lives elide, and even threaten. Whether she is addressing birds or rivers, or the need to accept loss, or sometimes, the desire to escape our own lives, her poetry is earthy and rigorous, her language at once elemental and tender. The Overhaul is a midlife book of repair, restitution, and THE BEST POEMS OF JANE KENYON Published twenty-five years after her untimely death, The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon presents the essential work of one of America’s most cherished poets—celebrated for her tenacity, spirit, and grace. In their inquisitive explorations and direct language, Jane Kenyon’s poems disclose a quiet certainty in the natural world and a lifelong dialogue with her faith and her questioning of it. PURGATORIO | GRAYWOLF PRESS Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In Purgatorio, still guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante emerges from the horrors of Hell to begin the climb up Mount Purgatory, a seven-terrace mountain with each level devoted to those atoning for one of the

THE GNOME STORIES

The Gnome Stories focuses on characters who are loners in the truest sense; who are in the process of recovering from mental, physical, or emotional trauma; and who find solace—or at least a sense of purpose—in peculiar jobs and pursuits. A man whose wife has left him is robbed, so he decides to start doing his own breaking and entering, into his neighbors’ homes. MY NAME WILL GROW WIDE LIKE A TREE Yi Lei published her poem “A Single Woman’s Bedroom” in 1987, when cohabitation before marriage was a punishable crime in China. She was met with major critical acclaim—and with outrage—for her frank embrace of women’s erotic desire and her unabashed critique of oppressive law. Over the span of her revolutionary career, Yi Lei became one of the most influential figures in TELEPHONE | GRAYWOLF PRESS Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches. GRAYWOLF PRESSBOOKSEVENTSSUPPORT GRAYWOLFABOUT USINTO ENGLISHDON'T

CALL US DEAD

Graywolf Press is a nonprofit publisher of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and genre-defying literature whose aim is to foster new thinking about what it means to live in the world today. More About

Graywolf.

ABOUT US | GRAYWOLF PRESS Graywolf Press is committed to making our books, programming, publishing process, and workplace accessible to communities and individuals of all backgrounds and abilities. We invite accessibility feedback and requests for accommodation. Please contact us by email ( access@graywolfpress.org) or by phone (651-641-0077) with any requests

for ADA

SUBMISSIONS

The winner of the 2019 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize was If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga, and the winner of the 2018 prize was The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. Both winners were selected by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass. The Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize is awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily JUST US | GRAYWOLF PRESS Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow direct addresses of whiteness. Rankine’s questions disrupt the false comfort of our culture’s liminal and private spaces—the airport, the theater, the dinner party, the

voting booth

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