Shann Ray’s novel Where Blackbirds Fly (Bison Books, 2025) is a braided set of five novellas, each a tenderly told and brutally honest investigation into the nature of relationships and what it means to love. As with his previous work, … Continue reading A History of Love and Fracture: An interview with Shann Ray
Rick Gosselin is a Pro Football Hall of Fame journalist who has covered the Detroit Lions, New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs, and Dallas Cowboys. He became a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee in 1988 and … Continue reading From the Desk of Rick Gosselin: The Team that History Forgot
Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer living in eastern North Carolina with his wife and daughters. His work has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere. Tuck serves on the advisory board for the North Carolina Literary Review and teaches writing at … Continue reading Twinless Twin: A Novel and Unsolved Mysteries
Andrea Strongwater is an author and artist whose artwork has been shown worldwide, including in the collections of the University Medical Center of Princeton, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum in Ithaca, New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Or … Continue reading From the Desk of Andrea Strongwater: Lost Synagogues of Europe
Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses November 10-14. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Presses. This year’s theme for UP Week is “Team UP,” to celebrate the ways … Continue reading UP Week: WHY does your press #TeamUp?
Kathryn Wilder is a writer and rancher in Dolores and Disappointment Valley, Colorado. She is the winner of a 2025 Western Heritage Award and the author of Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West, coauthor of Forbidden Talent, with … Continue reading From the Desk of Kathryn Wilder: Rain ’n’ Books
Grant Hayter-Menzies is the author of Dorothy Brooke and the Fight to Save Cairo’s Lost War Horses (Potomac Books, 2017) and From Stray Dog to World War I Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division (Potomac Books, 2015). The author donates a portion … Continue reading Rags of the First Division awarded the Purple Poppy
Chris Serb is deputy district chief for the Chicago Fire Department. He is also a veteran Chicago freelance writer with almost thirty years of experience as a journalist. Serb’s articles, concentrated in sports and history, have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago History, Writer’s … Continue reading From the Desk of Chris Serb: Walter Eckersall and the American Sports Section
Thomas Wolf is the author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Nebraska, 2020), finalist for the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, and coauthor, with Patricia Bryan, of Midnight … Continue reading From the Desk of Thomas Wolf: Why Write about Baseball in the 1920s?
Tyler Alexander is an educator in Vermont who teaches American history and government. He is a former James Madison Fellow and studied forestry, history, and education at the University of Maine and the University of Vermont. One of Alexander’s ancestors served alongside Dan Mason in Company D of the Sixth Vermont. His new book If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War (Potomac Books, 2025) was published in September. At Lee’s Mills: “We crossed the stream amid a shower of leaden hail, part of the time in the water nearly … Continue reading From the Desk of Tyler Alexander: If I Can Get Home This Fall
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