A tense antebellum novel in which enslaved girls and their white mistress become entangled in violence, dependency, and shifting power on a Kentucky farm.

Beneath the farm’s calm surface, power begins to collapse.

A novel rooted in the memories of a young soldier who served in Iraq, exploring loss, friendship, and the long afterlife of war.

Memories of war keep changing life after the return home.

A poetry collection where family, masculinity, Filipino immigrant experience, and Japanese martial imagery intersect, creating poems that move between memory, history, and formal experimentation.

Family memory keeps changing shape inside the poems.

A sweeping nonfiction book about how families confront identity, difference, and love through the stories of children with physical, mental, and social differences.

Stories of difference become a way to think about family.

A lifetime-achievement recognition for Wole Soyinka’s drama and poetry rather than a single standalone book.

An honor for a lifetime of creative work, not a book.