Sara Ries Dziekonski worked for years as a waitress in her parents' Woodlawn Diner in Buffalo, Ne...

It is late autumn when Collie Wright sees a man moving through the woods toward her cabin on the ...

This collection of poetry by award-winning poet Valerie Nieman ispraised by National Book Award f...

'In Anson County, Joseph Bathanti's generous heart turns the local into universal praises. Radian...

This valuable little book is a collection of six essays by and four interviews with Georgia Poet ...

'In these stories, Jeffrey Condran deliberately addresses the tensions and promise of our post-9 ...

From Yahia Lababidi, a celebration of more than twenty years of poetry that, according to Chard d...

That Rain We Needed is one man's search for his place of true belonging in an imperfect world. So...

Winner of the 2021 Press 53 Award for Poetry, Smile, or Else by Chanel Brenner, is a moving colle...

An engrossing, fanciful collection of stories, written with insight, wisdom, and humor, O Monstro...

The twin subjects of love and death run through Ray Morrison's book like a freight train rumbling...

Terri Kirby Erickson's sixth collection of poems, A Sun Inside My Chest, is one of those big book...

'The marvelous prose poems in Shivani Mehta's debut collection live at the intersection of langua...

In What My Hand Say, Glenis Redmond digs deep, risking peace of mind, the comfort of ignorance an...

'Sometimes a new poet appears who has a generous field of vision, a craft at once well-honed and ...

'John Thomas York has long been known as the Yadkin Bard. But he is also a poet of the vast reach...

Ben Greer spent the first part of his life publishing novels. He published his first poem when he...

Terri Kirby Erickson's poems have appeared in hundreds of publications including Poet's Market, T...

Former North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson lives on the same plot of land in Eastern N...

The eleven stories in Gerry Wilson's debut collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories, span thre...

Following in the footsteps of what was once mass immigration from Ulster to the Carolinas, Northe...

Kelly Cherry takes on what few contemporary poets are willing to: the ways and hows of human exis...

Our World, by North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, is a love letter to his wife, Nin, ...

'Reading Felicia Mitchell's stunning collection, Waltzing with Horses, is like spending a few lif...

A new collection of poetry by Dannye Romine Powell remains cause for celebration; and her latest,...

In Volume I of Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, we discovered that it's a d...

In these bittersweet, compelling stories, Virginia Pye's characters in Shelf Life of Happiness lo...

'...Along with the poetry comes a growing awareness of the 'independent airs' of radical Belfast,...

In Rebecca Foust's splendid book-length sonnet sequence, Paradise Drive, we come upon a Pilgrim c...

Dannye Romine Powell's marvelous new collection gives us a generous offering of poems that docume...

Elmaz Abinader says, 'My Lover Feeds Me Grapefruit rakes along the skin like a soft touch excitin...

'Travel invigorates and enlightens, and so does reading. You don't have to go to the Congo to gai...

To Be the Difference by Willie James King is filled with '. . .bare-boned, scalpel-edged verse [t...

This moving narrative by John Ehle describes the experiences of a handful of dedicated young stud...

Ed Southern's stories are about hard work and hard times and what is required of a boy to become ...

'These are haunting stories of people bearing the burdens of ordinary life a lot more completely ...

'When an avid reader of contemporary poetry discovers a book so full of warmth and eloquent exact...

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson needed to know-was connecting with her lifelong heroine the key to knowin...

The core of White Portals by Jennifer Holley Lux is a pair of elegy-sequences, like binary black ...

'These stories are magic: luminous evocations of the sorrow and joy and mystery of everyday life....

'Michael Kardos's soulful stories take place in that hard-luck corner of New Jersey where rock an...

'The characters in Welcome, Anybody stand absolutely still in the middle of their lives while the...

Former North Carolina Poet Laureate Cathy Smith Bowers is celebrated with this impressive volume ...

The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest was the debut poetry collection for North Carolina's first w...

John Ehle's classic civil war novel, Tome of Drums, returns to print as a Press 53 Classic. Book ...

Leslie is a marine biologist, an only child, and a mother of three who gets caught in a deadly ts...

Enigma is a stunning collection that works like good medicine. Endrezze is fiercely honest, brave...

Kelly Cherry's tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women of the Americ...