Mimi Nichter (née Beeber) is a cultural and medical anthropologist, public speaker, and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of four anthropology-related books and the recipient of the Margaret Mead Award … Continue reading Excerpt: Hostage
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays (Nebraska, 2025) by Bailey Gaylin Moore. About the … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Thank You for Staying With Me
Reviews And You Will Call it Fate Review in Booklist: “A memoir keenly relevant to our times by a gifted writer.” Life Beyond Fear Review in Kirkus: “A moving account of motherhood, displacement, and resilience amid war.” Lion of the … Continue reading News & Reviews
Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor … Continue reading Excerpt: The Heart Folds Early
Congratulations to the following UNP authors who were finalists for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards! “This year’s finalist judging process leaves us buoyant about the health of independent publishing,” says Executive Editor Matt Sutherland. Winners in … Continue reading Announcing the 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird (Nebraska, 2025) by Mike Stark. About … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Starlings
Kirsten Leng is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Sexual Politics and Feminist Science: Women Sexologists in Germany, 1900–1933. Her new book Pleasure, … Continue reading Excerpt: Play, Pleasure, and Politics
This weekend, March 15-16, UNP will be at the Tucson Festival of Books! Visit us at booth #315 to browse our books and meet our authors. Check out our virtual exhibit here for the same great books and conference discount. Saturday, March 14 … Continue reading UNP at the 2026 Tucson Festival of Books
Natalie Oceanheart is a trained psychologist and volunteer counselor. She immigrated to the United States in 2023 after the second Russian invasion of Ukraine. She has been awarded for her volunteer services and leadership by the Red Cross. Her new … Continue reading Life Beyond Fear: Why This Book Was Written
Reviews When We Only Have the Earth Review in North American Review: “Waberi’s poems plead, reason, celebrate, demand, and yearn. Waberi’s language is an act of noticing. Carlson’s translation completely captures the concerns and voice of the poet. The rest … Continue reading News & Reviews
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