Introducing Our New Authors
Starting this fall, we’ll be publishing three new titles, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the work of the fiercely talented poets behind these forthcoming collections.
Hila Ratzabi
Hila’s poetry has been published in Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She is the author of the chapbook The Apparatus of Visible Things and the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Willapa Bay AiR and the Crater Lake National Park residencies. She was editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Storyscape and is currently the director of virtual content and programs at Ritualwell.org. Hila holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and lives outside Chicago with her partner and two children.
There Are Still Woods, her first full-length collection, is a timely and deeply moving work of ecopoetry—a multifaceted look at our relationship to the natural world and the resilience and fragility of the planet. It’ll stay with you for a long time. It’ll be out in early September.
Hannah Lee Jones
Hannah’s poems and essays have appeared in a variety of places, including Apogee, Cider Press Review, and Lime Hawk. She runs Primal School, a coaching resource devoted to literature and ideas that promote a life of meaning. After three years of living as a nomad in the desert Southwest in search of Jack Kerouac’s “timeless, dear love of everything,” she makes her home for now in Port Townsend, Washington. She has a robust creative presence on Instagram and other platforms.
Her first book, When I Was the Wind, is a rich mythic journey through an inner wilderness. It’s been aptly described as “wild and dreamy”—you’ll never experience anything else quite like it. Watch for it in early October.
Mariella Saavedra Carquin
Mariella was the winner of the 2020 and 2022 Robert Haiduke Poetry Prize from Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English, where she completed an MA in English literature this year, and her poetry has been published in the Bread Loaf literary journal. She has also published in various academic journals on the psychological impact of microaggressions that undocumented immigrant youth experience. She spent the better part of a decade as a licensed mental health counselor in New York City in clinical, higher education, and school settings and now works at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the Division of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She’s also a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia University, with an EdM and an MA in psychological counseling. Born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Miami, Florida, she currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Her first poetry collection confronts grief and loss, focusing on the immigrant experience, relationships, memory and identity, and the power of dreams. It’ll be part of our 2023 season. Look for more details later this year.