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Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.


🆕 on Lab Games: Rae Delane's essay "You Start with Three Languages," which explores multilingual and multicultural identity and the invisible games we learn to play.

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November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Bojan Louis’s SINKING BELL “depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism.”

Read a short fiction collection from @graywolfpress.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth:
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Sinking Bell | Graywolf Press
An ex-con hired to fix up a school bus for a couple living off the grid in the desert finds himself in the middle of their tattered relationship. An electrician’s plan to take his young nephew on a…
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November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“Looking for the treasure, my friend. I lost something in this country, and I can’t figure out where, what city.”

An excerpt from FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out now from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pghrev.com/false-war/
False War - Pittsburgh Review of Books
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November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It's Give to the Max Day! Keep literature alive by making a gift to Graywolf today. The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag. #GTMD25

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November 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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I'm just thrilled to have this piece up at @defector.com, on Joshua Wheeler's debut novel, THE HIGH HEAVEN, from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I loved this book, and getting to work with @brandyjensen.bsky.social and have this run at Defector is a real dream come true. Gift link below, but subscribe!
‘The High Heaven’ Is A Beautifully Grounded Debut Novel | Defector
We first meet Izzy Gently, the protagonist of Joshua Wheeler’s captivating debut novel, The High Heaven, as a child. She is alone, wounded, and wandering. The year is 1967, and disaster has befallen t...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Carmen Maria Machado is one of the brilliant authors participating in this year’s Postcard Auction! Bid now for a personalized postcard from the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) at the link below!
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Maybe the densest novel under 200 pages I've ever read. I was lost, found, then lost again. This book contains some of the most stunning lines. A frenzy of magical grotesque beauty. Two dozen folktales packed in a cabin in the woods. I'm already craving more.

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November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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If anyone else is doing mermaids for the holidays this year I do have a relevant book @graywolfpress.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
3️⃣ days until #GTMD25! The first 75 people to make a donation of $75 or more will receive a limited-edition Books With Teeth tote bag 🐺📚 Support Graywolf with a gift:

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November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🆕 on Lab Games: Katy Whitehead's essay "Escaping the Family," about escape rooms, family vacations, and the "infinite puzzles" of marriage and parenthood. 🖇️ Read it here:

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November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Natalie Diaz, whose 2020 "Postcolonial Love Poem," won the Pulitzer Prize, is one of America's foremost contemporary poets. She also happens to be one of the authors featured in our annual postcard auction.

Bid on a personalized note from Diaz today.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Read a @graywolfpress.bsky.social anthology this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

NEW POETS OF NATIVE NATIONS “gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry.”
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New Poets of Native Nations | Graywolf Press
New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry. Editor Heid E. Erdrich has…
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November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#SneakPeek 👀 chaun webster's WITHOUT TERMINUS—a dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning author—is out June 2, 2026. Preorder:

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November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Congratulations to CLMP member @graywolfpress.bsky.social for winning the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize!
We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King @linkinglionking.bsky.social, ed. Yuka Igarashi, pub. Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social!

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November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Ready, Set, Bid! Manuel Muñoz is joining this year’s postcard auction, and you could walk away with a personalized note from the author of The Consequences (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). Don’t miss your chance! buff.ly/YcTTczg
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Huge congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel FLESH has won the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🎉 Did you know Graywolf published Szalay's previous novels ALL THAT MAN IS (a Booker finalist), LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST, and SPRING? Stock up:

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November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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You can hear Brandon Kilbourne read from Natural History this Wednesday at the U's @bellmuseum.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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New #poetry #books from Texas Review Press, The Song Cave, Clemson University Press, Indiana University Press, City Lights Publishers, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, CavanKerry Press, Green Writers Press, Penguin Books & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
New Poetry Titles (11/4/25)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/4 from Texas Review Press, The Song Cave, Clemson University Press, Indiana University Press, Bordighera Press, White Pine Press, City Lights Publishers, ...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Read a review of FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez (out this month with @graywolfpress.bsky.social , tr. Natasha Wimmer) in @nytimes.com!

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Forget Nostalgia: The Exiles in This Dreamlike Novel Are Angry
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November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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“Few other poets today operate in this genre of poetics, specifically eco-poetics and Anthropocene poetics.“

Excerpt from review of Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social .

Read the full review at the link below:

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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Read @graywolfpress.bsky.social poetry this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

Natalie Diaz’s POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM “demands that every body carried in its pages ... be touched and held as beloveds.”
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Postcolonial Love Poem | Graywolf Press
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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THE YEAR OF THE WIND by KARINA PACHECO MEDRANO and translated by Mara Faye Lethem via @graywolfpress.bsky.social is a meditation on responsibility, grief, reconciliation set in strife-riven 80s Peru. #Booksky
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THE YEAR OF THE WIND, responsibility, grief, reconciliation in strife-riven 80s Peru
THE YEAR OF THE WIND KARINA PACHECO MEDRANO (tr. Mara Faye Lethem) Graywolf Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, av...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I'm so thrilled we can finally share the beautiful cover for Earth 7 by @debolinunferth.bsky.social featuring luminous art by @ehaidle.bsky.social. @electricliterature.com has the scoop and @graywolfpress.bsky.social has the book!

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Exclusive Cover Reveal of "Earth 7" by Deb Olin Unferth - Electric Literature
An isolated rocket zooms over deep, watercolor blues of outer space, reflecting the loneliness, diversity, and resilience of our planet
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November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King @linkinglionking.bsky.social, ed. Yuka Igarashi, pub. Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social!

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November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM