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Excerpt: Voice First

January 17, 2024January 30, 2024 univnebpress

In less than 3 weeks UNP will be exhibiting at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) conference! The AWP Conference & Bookfair is the annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers of contemporary creative writing. Enjoy a … Continue reading Excerpt: Voice First

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Excerpt: Of Love and War

January 12, 2024January 3, 2024 univnebpress

Angela Wanhalla (Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi Tahu) is a professor of history at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the coauthor of He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century and author of Matters of the Heart: A History of … Continue reading Excerpt: Of Love and War

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Excerpt: Two Open Doors in a Field

January 9, 2024January 3, 2024 univnebpress

Sophie Klahr is a poet, teacher, and editor. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Two Open Doors in a Field was published by the Backwaters Press in March of 2023. Today is … Continue reading Excerpt: Two Open Doors in a Field

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Excerpt: Galloping Gourmet

January 5, 2024December 14, 2023 univnebpress

Steve Friesen is the retired director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave in Golden, Colorado, and contributing editor of True West magazine. He is the author of Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind and Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary. … Continue reading Excerpt: Galloping Gourmet

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Excerpt: Settler Aesthetics

December 26, 2023December 12, 2023 univnebpress

Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca) is a professor and chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations. Her latest book Settler Aesthetics: … Continue reading Excerpt: Settler Aesthetics

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Excerpt: Rise Up!

December 18, 2023December 12, 2023 univnebpress

Craig Harris is a music historian, a skilled percussionist, and the author or coauthor of several books, including Heartbeat, Warble, and the Electric Powwow: American Indian Music and Crossing Borders: My Journey in Music. He is a former music educator … Continue reading Excerpt: Rise Up!

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Excerpt: Godfall

December 14, 2023November 22, 2023 univnebpress

Van Jensen is a former newspaper crime reporter. Breaking into comic books with the acclaimed Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer graphic novel series, he has written some of the biggest characters in comics, including The Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, and James Bond. … Continue reading Excerpt: Godfall

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Excerpt: Murder in Manchuria

November 22, 2023November 20, 2023 univnebpress

Scott D. Seligman is a writer and historian. He is the national award-winning author of numerous books, including The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City (Potomac, 2020), The Third Degree: … Continue reading Excerpt: Murder in Manchuria

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Excerpt: Oracle of Lost Causes

October 30, 2023October 17, 2023 univnebpress

Matthew Christopher Hulbert is an Elliott Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He is the author of The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers became Gunslingers in the American West, winner of the 2017 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, … Continue reading Excerpt: Oracle of Lost Causes

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Excerpt: Loving the Dying

October 19, 2023October 18, 2023 univnebpress

Len Verwey is a South African poet who was born in Mozambique. He is the author of In a Language That You Know (Nebraska, 2017), and his poems have been published in numerous journals, including Transnational Literature and New Contrast. His newest poetry collection, Loving the … Continue reading Excerpt: Loving the Dying

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