The University of Nebraska Press is proud to be on NetGalley’s publisher list. NetGalley is a digital platform that helps authors and publishers promote digital review copies to book reviewers and other publishing industry professionals. Join the online reader community here! … Continue reading UNP Books on NetGalley
Jason Brown is a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. He has published four books of short stories: A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, Driving the Heart and Other Stories, Why the Devil … Continue reading Excerpt: Character Witness
Reviews The Spring Before Obergefell Review in The Gay & Lesbian Review: “Grossberg’s novel excels in portraying the banality of smalltown life and the fractured focus of the digital age . . . this is very much a novel about … Continue reading News & Reviews
AAPI Heritage Month is celebrated throughout May to recognize the accomplishments of people of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander descent. Originally a weeklong celebration introduced by representatives Frank Horton (NY) and Norman Mineta (CA) and Hawaiian representatives Daniel Inouye … Continue reading Reading List: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Sherrie Flick is a senior lecturer in the MFA and food studies programs at Chatham University and a freelance writer and editor. She received a 2023 Creative Development Award from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative … Continue reading From the Desk of Sherrie Flick: Beyond Replicating Place
To celebrate Mother’s Day on May 12, we’ve curated a list of memoirs, fiction, anthropology, and history that explores the beautiful yet complicated kaleidoscope of motherhood. If This Were Fiction JILL CHRISTMAN If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill … Continue reading Reading List: Mother’s Day
Patrice Gopo is an award-winning essayist who writes stories steeped in themes of place, belonging, and home. She is the author of two essay collections: the newly released Autumn Song: Essays on Absence (Nebraska, 2023) and All the Colors We … Continue reading From the Desk of Patrice Gopo: Words that Connect Us, Words that Help Us Feel Seen
Summer is the perfect time to kick back, relax, and pick up a memoir written by one of our authors. With our summer reading sale, you can get our nonfiction books for 50% off! From now until the end of July, Lincoln City Libraries is promoting its annual summer reading program and adult readers have the opportunity to win a 40% discount coupon from UNP if they complete the program! Register for the program here. Need help picking your next read? Check out a list of some of our memoirs below: Shadow Migration by Suzanne Ohlmann Let Me Count the … Continue reading Memoir Summer Reading List
The San Antonio Book Festival celebrates national and local authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. The festival takes place all day on Saturday, May 21, located downtown at the Central Library (600 Soledad Street) … Continue reading UNP Authors at the San Antonio Book Festival
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Fall 2019 Newsletter, i.e. Timothy J. Hillegonds has published work in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Rumpus, Brevity, and other publications. He lives in Chicago with his wife and … Continue reading Why I Write: By Timothy J. Hillegonds
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