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Elaine Castillo
Elaine Castillo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and now lives in southeast London. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and received her MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she was shortlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Award. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Gatewood Prize semi-finalist, three-time winner of the Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prize for prose, and one of the 29 writers in Freeman’s, Issue Four: The Future of New Writing. Her debut novel, America Is Not the Heart, will be published by Viking (US/Canada), Atlantic (UK) and Foksal (Poland) in Spring 2018.
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Assembly (2021)
Natasha Brown
"Assembly feels thrillingly like the fictional companion to Jamaica Kincaid’s nonfiction masterpiece A Small Place: where A Small Place dissected British imperialism and coloniality as manifested in Antigua, Brown turns that keen, forensic gaze back to England’s own green and not so pleasant Land, filleting through its mores and pulling back its veneer of civility with the steady, sure hand of a surgeon. A book like a finely honed scalpel—marking a new and electrifying dawn for the essay novel."
Bestiary (2020)
K-Ming Chang
"Bestiary is crafted at the scale of epic poetry: origin stories that feel at once gravely older than their years, yet viscerally contemporary. Chang knows well that the life of a family—marriage, immigration, queer coming-of-age—can so often feel like a wild and tender myth, being spun and unspun by its members, again and again. These are fables I wish I’d had growing up."
Starling Days (2019)
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
"Starling Days a beautiful and profoundly moving 'loor plan' of what it means to live with depression and dailiness, love and death, solitude and connection."
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