Jennifer Sinor is the author of several books, including The Yogic Writer: Uniting Breath, Body, and Page; Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World (Nebraska, 2020); Letters Like the Day: On Reading Georgia O’Keeffe; and Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir. Her work has appeared in Best American … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer Sinor: Writing Inspiration from a Family Diary
Dr. Autumn Lorimer Linford is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. Her decades-long journalistic career spanned the United States from Wyoming to North Carolina and her award-winning historical research has appeared in top academic journals like American Journalism. Her book, … Continue reading From the Desk of Autumn Linford: Giving Newsgirls their Place in History
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
This year Heartland Fall Forum is in Minneapolis, Minnesota from October 7-9, 2026. Heartland Fall Forum is the premiere gathering place for those interested in independent bookstores throughout the Midwest. The event is hosted jointly by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association and … Continue reading UNP at Heartland Fall Forum
Suzanne Roberts is the author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (Nebraska, 2022), longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (Nebraska, 2020); and Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir … Continue reading Excerpt: 52 Writing Prompts
The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the selection of the next book in the fiction series, Zero Street. Open Wounds by Sam Moe will be published on May 1, 2027. Open Wounds is a short story collection … Continue reading Announcing the next book in Zero Street Fiction
Reviews Striped Reckoning Review in Publishers Weekly: “Journalist Bradley (Twisting in Air) delivers a comprehensive history of exotic big cat breeding in the U.S. . . . It’s a vital portrait of the quest to save these mistreated wild animals.” … Continue reading News & Reviews
Daniel H. Usner is Holland N. McTyeire Professor Emeritus of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History and Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New … Continue reading From the Desk of Daniel H. Usner: Tracking Down Baskets and Letters
Adam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize. He is a recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. … Continue reading From the Desk of Adam O. Davis: Death was everywhere and, suddenly, so were birds
Sarah Eppler Janda is a professor of history at Cameron University. She is the author of Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972 and the coeditor (with Patricia Loughlin) of This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s … Continue reading From the Desk of Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin
