Graywolf Press

01/23/2025

Join us in congratulating Edwidge Danticat! WE'RE ALONE is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction 🎉🎉🎉⁠
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This is the fourth time Danticat has been recognized by the National Book Critics Circle Awards. She previously won the NBCC Award in Autobiography for BROTHER, I'M DYING and in Fiction for EVERYTHING INSIDE, and she was a finalist in Criticism for THE ART OF DEATH (published by Graywolf). With WE'RE ALONE, "Danticat once again proves that she is one of contemporary literature’s strongest, most graceful voices" (Gabino Iglesias, NPR.org).⁠

Register for the finalist reading on March 19th and the awards ceremony on March 20th here:
https://www.wildboundlive.com/events/nbcc2025

01/15/2025

We're thrilled to announce that Graywolf Press has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $50,000. This grant will support the publication of three nonfiction titles in 2025: Paul Preciado's DYSPHORIA MUNDI, Deborah Baker's CHARLOTTESVILLE, and Chloé Caldwell's TRYING. Thank you, NEA! 🎉🎉

https://www.arts.gov/news/press-releases/2025/national-endowment-arts-supports-arts-nearly-368-million-funding-nationwide

01/02/2025

📢 Tour announcement! Don't miss Youssef Rakha discussing THE DISSENTERS in DC, NYC, Minneapolis, and Seattle, with all-star guests Eman Quotah, Zain Khalid, Linda Mokdad, and Gabrielle Bates.⁠
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🖇️ Details: https://www.graywolfpress.org/events
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Hallucinatory, erotic, and stylish, THE DISSENTERS is a transcendent portrait of a woman and an era that explodes our ideas of faith, gender roles, freedom, and political agency. Amna, Nimo, Mouna—these are all names for a single Egyptian woman whose life has mirrored that of her country. After her death in 2015, her son, Nour, ascends to the attic of their house where he glimpses her in a series of ever more immersive visions: Amna as a young woman forced into an arranged marriage in the 1950s, a coquettish student of French known to her confidants as Nimo, a self-made divorcee and a lover, a “pious mama” donning her hijab, and, finally, a feminist activist during the Arab Spring. Charged and renewed by these visions of a woman he has always known as Mouna, Nour begins a series of fevered letters to his sister—who has been estranged from Mouna and from Egypt for many years—in an attempt to reconcile what both siblings know about this mercurial woman, their country, and the possibility for true revolution after so much has failed.

12/20/2024

📢 Mark your calendars! Don't miss your chance to see Corinna Vallianatos discuss her story collection ORIGIN STORIES, which has already been called "full of power, brilliance, and racing energy" (Deb Olin Unferth), "precise, surprising, and funny" (Rachel Khong), "enchanting, disturbing, and provocative" (Camille Bordas), and "one of the best new collections I've read in years" (Eric Puchner).⁠
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https://www.graywolfpress.org/events

12/18/2024

📢 Job opening! We are hiring a Major Gifts Officer to join Graywolf Press’s growing development department. Along with being open to candidates based in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, we encourage development professionals based in New York City who have knowledge of the contemporary literary industry to apply for this position.⁠
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The Major Gifts Officer will be a frontline solicitor of sizeable contributed income from individuals, comfortable managing an active portfolio of donors and finding new prospects. This position also plays a key role in Graywolf’s fundraising events, as well as contributing to other activities undertaken by the development department.⁠
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Apply here: https://graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit/315931/major-gifts-officer

12/10/2024

We're so excited to publish Brandon Kilbourne's NATURAL HISTORY, winner of the 2025 Cave Canem Prize!

https://cavecanempoets.org/2025-cc-prize-brandon-kilbourne/

12/03/2024

This , give yourself or a loved one the gift that keeps on giving. Join the Graywolf Galley Club for $15/month and receive six pre-publication titles throughout the year! Plus, your membership donation supports the publication of risk-taking, visionary books.⁠
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Sign up today:
https://graywolfpress.salsalabs.org/galleyclub/index.html

11/21/2024

📢 It's Give to the Max Day! Consider making a gift to Graywolf Press to fund the production of 2025 books, community events, and author advances for future acquisitions. Your support enables us to publish risk-taking, visionary writers that transform culture through literature (books like National Book Award-winning TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE!).⁠
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Help us reach our goal to raise $200,000 more before December 31. Link in bio to donate. Thank you for your generosity!

https://www.givemn.org/organization/Graywolfpress

11/21/2024

Howls for TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE!!!

https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/taiwan-travelogue

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 National Book Awards!

11/19/2024

Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY—a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry—is out in paperback today! Pick up a copy from your local indie bookstore.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/modern-poetry-poems-diane-seuss/19991894?ean=9781644453186

11/19/2024

Ft. a special reading by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, author of THE HOUSE OF RUST!

We are thrilled to invite you to the exhibition of the second edition of Foto Mtaani, on the theme “The Ocean and its People” 🌊. Join us to discover the works of our talented young photographers, mentored by Eugénie Baccot.

The exhibition will also feature Eugénie Baccot’s own photographic work, accompanied by a special reading from the author Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. 📖✨

📅 Date: Friday, 22nd November
🕕 Time: 6 PM
📍 Venue: Alliance Française de Mombasa

The photographs capture unique stories, exploring the deep connection between Mombasa’s community and the ocean. We look forward to welcoming you to celebrate their work and enjoy an evening of art and literature that tells the stories of Kenya’s beautiful coast. 🌅

Project supported by the Ministry for Europe and International Affairs and the Institut français under the strategy for International Export for Cultural and Creative Industries.

11/14/2024

A new episode of Graywolf Lab: The Podcast is out now!

Our publisher Carmen Giménez speaks to Laura Marris, author of The Age of Loneliness, and Roger Reeves, most recently the author of Dark Days: Fugitive Essays about the role of the essayist and critic today. They discuss the intellectual’s engagement with publics outside the page——classroom as mutual aid society, community science, oral history——and the idea of gap gardening. “Can we make space in the essay for people to hear themselves think?”

Listen here:
https://graywolflab.org/2024/11/12/cultural-criticism/

11/12/2024

Happy pub. day to:⁠
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📚️ Yáng Shuāng-zǐ's novel TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King. A finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power.⁠
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📚️ Kathryn Davis's novel VERSAILLES, an enchanting meditation on girlhood, womanhood, architecture, and—above all—time and the soul’s true journey within it.⁠
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📚️ The paperback edition of Shannon Sanders's linked story collection COMPANY. Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, COMPANY is a multifaceted, multigenerational saga about intimacy, societal and familial obligations, and the ways inheritances shape our fates.⁠
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Pick up copies of all three books from your local indie today!

11/11/2024

📢 We are now open to submissions for contemporary poetry in translation!⁠
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Graywolf will hold this open submission period until November 15, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. CT. Only the first 500 submissions will be considered, after which the submission period will close.⁠
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We are open to translations of poetry by living poets from any language, but we are especially eager to receive work from languages and countries of origin that are traditionally underrepresented in the literary landscape. We also encourage submissions from emerging BIPOC translators. ⁠
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https://graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit/304532/open-call-for-submissions-contemporary-poetry-in-translation

10/23/2024

📢 THE HORMONE OF DARKNESS tour kicks off tomorrow! Don't miss your chance to hear Tilsa Otta read from her b***y, fabulist, spiritual "playlist" of poems. Translator Farid Matuk will be joining for many of these stops! ⚡️⚡️⁠
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https://www.graywolfpress.org/events

10/18/2024

Catch Sara Daniele Rivera on tour this fall for THE BLUE MIMES!

https://www.graywolfpress.org/events

10/15/2024

Happy pub. day to:⁠
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🦄 Lucy Ives's AN IMAGE OF MY NAME ENTERS AMERICA 🦄 In this collection of five interrelated essays, Ives explores identity, national fantasy, and history. She examines events and records from her own life—a childhood obsession with My Little Pony, papers and notebooks from college, an unwitting inculcation into the myth of romantic love, and the birth of her son—to excavate larger aspects of the past that have been suppressed or ignored. With bracing insight and extraordinary range, she weaves new stories about herself, her family, our country, and our culture.⁠
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💎 Tilsa Otta's THE HORMONE OF DARKNESS, translated from the Spanish by Farid Matuk 💎 A bilingual selection of tender, transgressive poems—and drawing from four volumes spanning Otta’s career—translator-poet Matuk has curated a playlist we can dance and dream to, one that honors Otta’s drive toward liberation through both perreo in the club and transdimensional wandering among the stars.⁠
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Pick up copies from your local indie today!

10/01/2024

Happy pub. day to:⁠
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🔸 SEASON OF THE SWAMP by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, a magnificent work of speculative history about the eighteen months Benito Juárez spent in exile in New Orleans. Juárez eventually became the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, and Herrera brilliantly imagines how Juárez’s time in New Orleans prepared him for what was to come. ⁠
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🔹 HOLD EVERYTHING by Dobby Gibson, a poetry collection that explores the strangeness of the everyday with fresh urgency, inviting us to reawaken and reclaim our fuller selves. Its epistolary poems put us in correspondence with Edo-period poets and 1980s hair-metal gods, artificial intelligence and hotel soaps. Gibson’s poems remain on alert, demonstrating the many ways a deeper attention to the marvels and horrors of the contemporary world can form a kind of civil disobedience.⁠
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📚️ Pick up copies from your local indie today, and catch these authors on tour this fall!

https://www.graywolfpress.org/events