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
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
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
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, … Continue reading From the Desk of Jill Christman: Baltimore Bound
UNP will be exhibiting at the AWP Conference & Bookfair March 4-7 in Baltimore, Maryland. The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Visit us at booths 1069/1071 to browse … Continue reading UNP at AWP26
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 Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History (Nebraska, 2025) by Robert Cvornyek and … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Race and Resistance in Boston
Steve Bialostok is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He is the coeditor of Education and the Risk Society: Theories, Discourse, and Risk Identities in Education Contexts. His most recent book Playing to the End: Elder Black Men, Placemaking, … Continue reading Excerpt: Playing to the End
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
Katharina Galor is the Hirschfield Senior Lecturer in Judaic Studies at Brown University. Born in Germany, where her parents had fled from communist Romania, Galor was educated in Germany, France, Israel, and the United States. She is the author or coauthor … Continue reading Excerpt: Out of Gaza
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