Awards Fruit, Fiber, and Fire won the Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico. The Power of Scenery is a finalist for the Marfield Prize. Reviews Dear Diaspora Review in Poetry Society of America: “This 2021 … Continue reading News & Reviews
Mike Stark is the author of Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast from Bison Books. Recently, he caught up with himself over a beer at his home in Tucson, Arizona. With jazz on the … Continue reading Mike Stark interviews Mike Stark
Clark Whitehorn is the executive editor of Bison Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. Below he shares his experience on being a part of the Tucson Festival of Books that took place on March 12-13 in Tucson, … Continue reading People Make Publishing: Clark Whitehorn on the Tucson Festival of Books
Saturday, March 12 through Sunday March 13, 2022, UNP will be at the Tucson Festival of Books. Come visit Bison Books Executive Editor Clark Whitehorn, and our amazing authors for signings and more! UNP authors in attendance: Wynne Brown, author … Continue reading UNP at the Tucson Festival of Books
Awards Wynne Brown’s Forgotten Botanist is a Top Pick for Southwest Books of the Year Erin Flanagan’s Deer Season is a finalist for the Edgar Award David C. Beyreis’ Blood in the Borderlands was a finalist for CSAW’s Outstanding Western … Continue reading News & Reviews
The Burglar’s Christmas was originally published near the beginning of Willa Cather’s writing career in 1896 under the pseudonym of Elizabeth L. Seymour. The story follows William Crawford on the cold streets of Chicago as he contemplates the multiple failures plaguing … Continue reading Excerpt: The Burglar’s Christmas
The following books available this fall from our imprint, Bison Books. Read below to learn more about these fall releases! Burning the Breeze by Lisa Hendrickson Burning the Breeze is the story of three generations of women and their intrepid efforts … Continue reading New from Bison Books!
Paul A. Johnsgard, an internationally respected naturalist, passed away on May 28, 2021 at the age of 89. Johnsgard was a professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Alongside his teaching, his writing and photography also helped … Continue reading Remembering Paul A. Johnsgard
Congratulations to Edward J. Driving Hawk and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, authors of Too Strong to Be Broken (Bison Books, 2020)! Their book is a finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. Each year the Center for Great … Continue reading Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Finalist
Introducing our fifth virtual book tour, the Edible West! COVID-19 is proving to be a harsh taskmaster, providing an education on concerns great and small, but one of the earliest lessons it taught us as a nation is the vulnerability … Continue reading Virtually Bison Books: Edible West
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