Lisa G. Dill is an adjunct professor of creative and environmental writing at the University of Delaware. Her new book Around the Bend: Floating Down the Missouri River (Bison Books, 2026) was published this month. A lot of people have … Continue reading From the Desk of Lisa G. Dill: Around the Bend
Save on a number of titles this spring with the following sales. Whether you’re looking for books to join you at the ballpark or the picnic, we’ve got your TBR covered, rain or shine. Click the links below to browse … Continue reading April Sales 2026
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 Excerpt: Life Beyond Fear
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
Reviews Thank You for Staying With Me Review in Hippocampus Magazine: “The title stands as both a request and a promise and reminds us that staying—with our pain, our questions, and each other—is a deeply courageous act.” The Great Christmas … Continue reading News & Reviews
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “This month I’ve been reading The Midnight Shift, a vampire murder … Continue reading March Staff Reading List
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
Reviews And You Will Call it Fate Review in Booklist: “A memoir keenly relevant to our times by a gifted writer.” Life Beyond Fear Review in Kirkus: “A moving account of motherhood, displacement, and resilience amid war.” Lion of the … Continue reading News & Reviews
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, where she serves as editor … Continue reading Excerpt: The Heart Folds Early
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