I can say this without spoiling anything, but the epilogue to Becoming Little Shell begins with reflections from “a little green house high on a hillside that overlooks Butte, Montana.” It is mid-November of 2021 and, as I wrote, I was in that house enjoying a residency where I largely completed the first draft of …
The winners for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2025 Northwest Book Awards have been announced. The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Since 1965, the annual Book Awards have recognized such luminary figures in Northwest literature as Ivan Doig, Ursula K. …
A beautiful collection of nature essays from an array of black essayists & poets– A Darker Wilderness is a literary treasure trove. As each writer sets about drawing upon an archival object to use as a portal for their own ruminations on the American natural world & memory, the sum of these personal histories & …
The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) is a non-profit association of independent bookstores from five Northwest states, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. The Association produces educational and promotional events and materials for its members and offers literacy, free speech, and author promotional vehicles through its member stores. Since 1965, the PNBA Awards …
Sometimes I feel like a chameleon. I grew up on a farm in Iowa (first 18 years, plus four years of graduate school), lived in Michigan (six years), South Dakota (three months), Oregon (three years), Alaska (half a year), Idaho (one-and-a-half years), Washington (16 years), Norwich, England (one year) and Minnesota (twenty years). As a …
“The wonder of the natural world really comes to life in Things That Are, a new collection of essays from award-winning writer Amy Leach. Moving from lilies to jellyfish, pandas to honeybees, Leach’s lyrical explorations of the wild offer the reader little respites from the techno-paced modern world. Sometimes she invites us to engage in …
Christopher Howell is a stalwart figure in Northwest poetry and publishing. A professor at Eastern Washington University, where he was a senior editor at EWU Press, he runs Lynx House Press, a small independent publisher. His tenth collection of poetry, Gaze, was published early in 2012 by Milkweed Editions. Meeting Chris Howell, one finds him …
