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Terra Trevor at Bay Area Book Festival

May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 univnebpress

Terra Trevor, author of We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir (Nebraska, 2023) will speak at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley. The festival takes place from May 31-June 1, 2025. Trevor will participate in the panel “Living … Continue reading Terra Trevor at Bay Area Book Festival

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Excerpt: Rooted at the Edge

May 26, 2025May 21, 2025 univnebpress

Donna L. Erickson is a consultant on open-space conservation in the Rocky Mountain West and was an associate professor of landscape architecture and planning at the University of Michigan for sixteen years. Erickson has published extensively in design, planning, and … Continue reading Excerpt: Rooted at the Edge

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Recent Award Winners

May 23, 2025May 21, 2025 univnebpress

Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work! Colorado Book Awards Rainbow Cattle Co. (Nebraska, 2024) by Nicholas Villanueva is a History Finalist. Mary’s Place (Bison Books, 2024) by Charlotte Hinger is a finalist in the … Continue reading Recent Award Winners

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UNP Books on NetGalley

May 8, 2025May 7, 2025 univnebpress

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

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April Staff Reading List

April 30, 2025April 28, 2025 univnebpress

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 finished Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a … Continue reading April Staff Reading List

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Reading List: National Go Birding Day

April 25, 2025April 21, 2025 univnebpress

Happy National Go Birding Day! Observed tomorrow, the date celebrates more than 10,000 different bird species around the world and the joys of birdwatching. We’ve curated a reading list to help you go birding across the plains when you need … Continue reading Reading List: National Go Birding Day

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From the Desk of Michael Dowdy: Ancestors and Anxious Dads

April 18, 2025April 14, 2025 univnebpress

Michael Dowdy is a professor of English at Villanova University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Urbilly: Poems and American Poets in the 21st Century: The Poetics of Social Engagement, co-edited with Claudia Rankine. His latest book Tell Me About … Continue reading From the Desk of Michael Dowdy: Ancestors and Anxious Dads

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Excerpt: Blue Helmet

April 14, 2025April 7, 2025 univnebpress

Edward H. Carpenter is a retired lieutenant colonel, a veteran of America’s “Long Wars” who served in the U.S. Army and Marines for a total of twenty-nine years, from Afghanistan to Japan, Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. He has written for the Washington … Continue reading Excerpt: Blue Helmet

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UNP Books on NetGalley

April 4, 2025April 3, 2025 univnebpress

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

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March Staff Reading List

March 31, 2025March 27, 2025 univnebpress

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. “Since I’m attending AWP at the end of the month, … Continue reading March Staff Reading List

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