A collection of short fiction and essays that renders the cracks in everyday life and the loneliness and resistance of people on the margins with restrained prose, exposing the contradictions of society.

A collection that gathers voices rising from the cracks of ordinary life.

A poetry collection set against California landscapes and urban life, repeatedly circling a sense of place and personal alienation in lines that are playful and sharp.

Place names become the starting point for a vivid sense of location and solitude.

A collection of performance-oriented poetry that weaves together Black women’s experience, political address, oral tradition, and musical rhythm into a forceful voice.

The poems seem to take on a body between reading and speaking.

A novel centered on Tayo, a returning World War II veteran, that interweaves Native tradition with a fragmented modern world to explore healing and renewal, with cultural memory and ceremony at its core.

Story and ceremony slowly stitch together a damaged sense of time.

An experimental poetry collection that uses fragmentary images and leaps of language to delicately trace the small shifts of memory, body, and relationship.

Memory and the body emerge in the spaces between fragments.

A novel set in Hawaii’s immigrant community that follows a Nisei perspective through family bonds, poverty, cultural pride, and conflict.

Pride and the realities of daily life collide within a family under pressure.

A poetry collection shaped by jazz rhythm and improvisation, expressing urban life and Black experience with musical force and momentum.

Urban roughness sounds through the breath of improvisation.

A Chicano-centered novel that frames conflicts over cultural identity, family, and the inheritance of history as a coming-of-age story.

Family memory and the weight of history quietly shape a boy’s growth.