City of Dis

Breaking Into Blossom

Winner of The 2024 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Diane Seuss

Winner of The 2024 George Garrett Fiction Prize, selected by Kaveh Akbar

Unburying the Bones is a book of poetry that serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in th...

The Iridescents

Boys Behind Glass

In Hide Island, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores them...

Often set in Western border states, these stories will pique, entertain, and occasionally shock y...

Short Bus is a darkly humorous collection of linked stories set in the southern haunts of coastal...

In 1874 a boy leaves a comfortable life in Chicago and heads west to work on the burgeoning railr...

It’s 1981, and thirteen-year-old Roscoe McAdams and his brother and sister have always lived with...

The poems of Barrier Island Suite are inspired by thelife, art, and writings of Walter Inglis And...

A novel about mother-daughter relationships, betrayal, annoying relatives, the power of laughter,...

Jeff Hardin’s No Other Kind of World explores our “need to witness miracles” within a world that ...

The stories in The Fire Doll investigate the notion that our experience can be richer, more inclu...

Gordon Weaver is known well throughout the world of American letters. Since the publication in 19...

This is a collection of poems by Ann Killough.

Res ipsa loquitur--the thing speaks for itself--as the lawyers say. But does it? Not in Michael L...

Far-From-Equilibrium Conditions, Michael Lieberman's fifth collection of poems, struggles to find...

Harlow tells the story of eighteen-year-old Leslie Somers, who trudges his way through the dark L...

Associate Professor Gale Ruthven, a vampire with nearly four hundred years of service at eighty-t...

Along Texas roadways rest thousands of contemplative shrines, usually marked by small, white meta...

The pieces in this collection range in setting from the small towns of New England to the deserts...

A volume of poetry by Cleatus Rattan, a former marine who ranches 100 miles west of Fort Worth ne...

One of the US's most respected and feared literary critics, Eric Miles Williamson collects here f...

In Ephemera, winged creatures elegize and celebrate the beauty of evanescence simultaneously. The...

The Mad Farmer’s Wife is a response to a life lived on a mountain cattle farm in Southwest Virgin...

Over twenty years ago, Sarah Cortez left a flourishing corporate career to strap on a gun, and po...

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World Wa...

Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction wr...

Before performing stand-up comedy on The Tonight Show and writing on the staff of Politically Inc...

Jack Butler’s Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems is a celebration that refuses to explain ...

The women of Harvard Square are smart, sassy, and sexy. There's Agnes, who with her boyfriend May...

Six couples from Austin, Texas, have vacationed on Lake Como in Italy during the month of August ...

In Hide Island, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores them...

The Pugilist's Wife tells the story of Magdalene Tucker, a jilted woman who takes in a drifter du...

Does Houston need its own Iliad? If it's Mike Lieberman's, it does. In this nervy adaptation of H...

'In Margot Kevin Stewart writes clear, beautiful prose and tells one hell of a tale, an old-fashi...

1999 Texas Review Poetry Prize Winner

Winner, 2012 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize“In A Little Luck, Jeff Worley presents that rarest of com...

The poems in The Error of Nostalgia explore the relationships between individuals and their natur...

William Virgil Davis is a widely published, award-winning poet. Among his many honors, fellowship...

In the ecstatic tradition, this debut collection considers language as a devotion. Located in an ...

Kelly Rowe writes of loss: loss of life, of innocence, of love. She explores how our losses weigh...

Critics have compared Robert Phillips's storytelling ability in his first two collections, Land o...

'High-spirited and unafraid, full of Louisiana Cajun zest, quick to anger and quick to forgive, a...

Daniel Stern has been leaving his individual mark on the American short story for the last dozen ...