✦ We are honored to announce the 2027 winner of the Joe W. Bratcher Prize, Out, Little Spear! by Mandy Gutmann-González! In this collection, Chilean mythology inhabits Anglo-Saxon metrical charms as curandera poems, summoning counterspells against contemporary ills.
✦ Mandy Gutmann-González is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. A CantoMundo and MacDowell fellow, they are the author of the forthcoming poetry collections O/CCULT (Omnidawn) and Out, Little Spear! (Host Publications), the chapbook A/An (End of the Line Press), and the novel La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas). They teach poetry, experimental fiction, and Latinx literature at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
✦ Next fall, we’re thrilled to publish Ashleigh Kennedy’s collection Oracle Machine, which reclaims and reckons with origin stories through the intersection of religion and technology in this sonically-rich debut.
✦ Ashleigh Kennedy's chapbook Digital Logics is coming soon from Milkteeth Books, an imprint of Kaya Press. She received her MFA at the University of Mississippi, where she was a John and Renée Grisham Fellow and a Bondurant Prize awardee. Currently, she is an associate editor at Poetry Northwest and an assistant poetry editor at YesYes Books. She hails from Pennsylvania and China.
✦ Closing out our 2027 publishing slate, Joshua Zeitler’s Intransigent is a revelation. With humor and vulnerability, this debut collection brings closer the nebulous limits of meaning to search experiences of gender dysphoria and a nonbinary identity for an embodiment that transcends the human need to understand.
✦ Joshua Zeitler is a queer, nonbinary writer based in rural Michigan. They received their MFA in Poetry from Alma College. A finalist for Epiphany's 2026 Breakout Prize in Poetry and the 2026 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize, their work has appeared in Poetry Daily, Ploughshares, Foglifter, Nimrod, Shō, The Shore, and elsewhere.
✦ 2028 kicks off with the Valentine’s Day publication of Joshua Garcia’s Beheaded Sonnets—a decadent and cleverly withholding collection, explores Puccini's final opera Turandot and what happens when a sonnet refuses its closing.
✦ Joshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award, and Nudes: 21 Poems After Philip Pearlstein, winner of the 2025 Gold Line Press Chapbook Award. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project, and support from the Hawthornden Foundation. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.
✦ In Spring 2028, we’re thrilled to publish juj e. lepe’s Prayer is the Heaviest Fruit. In this shapeshifting debut, lepe weaves mythos, lineage, and queer ecopoetics to chart personal transformation.
✦ juj e. lepe is a Mexican-American poet from Northern California. Their poems are featured or forthcoming in New Delta Review, American Literary Review, Ninth Letter, and Shō Poetry Journal, among other publications. juj has received support from Blue Mountain Center, the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where they earned an MFA in Poetry. Their chapbook, Your Name Means Solitude, was selected by francine j. harris for the 2026 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prize (Texas Review Press, 2027). They live in Chicago.
✦ We're thrilled to announcing the publication of Trinh Lê’s debut Everything is Illuminated in its Dying. Arriving to your shelf Fall 2028, this collection is full of devotion—to ancestors such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, as well as to the inherent risk-taking of Lê’s queer, archival poetics.
✦ Trinh Lê is a Bay Area poet, artist, and community archivist attending to the spiritual materials of lesbian life. Their multidisciplinary work has been supported by the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, the Academy of American Poets, Naropa University, and the San Francisco Public Library. Trinh’s poetry can be found in The Tiny, The Ana, and MORIA Literary, where they were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Trinh holds an MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. They are the author of Everything is Illuminated in its Dying, forthcoming from Host Publications.