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Announcing the next book in Zero Street Fiction

September 29, 2026September 25, 2026 univnebpress

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

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Excerpt: Slow Guillotine

May 4, 2026April 28, 2026 univnebpress

Teo Rivera-Dundas is a writer in western Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wassaic Project, Anderson Center at Tower View, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of California, San Diego. His writing has appeared in Gulf … Continue reading Excerpt: Slow Guillotine

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Excerpt: Scarlett

December 29, 2025December 19, 2025 univnebpress

Leslie Stainton has served on the board of directors of both the Slave Dwelling Project and Coming to the Table. She is a two-time Fulbright recipient and a former lecturer in creative nonfiction at the University of Michigan Residential College. Stainton … Continue reading Excerpt: Scarlett

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A History of Love and Fracture: An interview with Shann Ray

December 17, 2025December 15, 2025 univnebpress

Shann Ray’s novel Where Blackbirds Fly (Bison Books, 2025) is a braided set of five novellas, each a tenderly told and brutally honest investigation into the nature of relationships and what it means to love. As with his previous work, … Continue reading A History of Love and Fracture: An interview with Shann Ray

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Excerpt: Twinless Twin

December 15, 2025December 9, 2025 univnebpress

Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer living in eastern North Carolina with his wife and daughters. His work has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere. Tuck serves on the advisory board for the North Carolina Literary Review and teaches writing at … Continue reading Excerpt: Twinless Twin

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Twinless Twin: A Novel and Unsolved Mysteries

November 25, 2025November 24, 2025 univnebpress

Dean Marshall Tuck is a writer living in eastern North Carolina with his wife and daughters. His work has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, Witness Magazine, and elsewhere. Tuck serves on the advisory board for the North Carolina Literary Review and teaches writing at … Continue reading Twinless Twin: A Novel and Unsolved Mysteries

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News & Reviews

November 20, 2025November 18, 2025 univnebpress

Reviews Making Space Review in H-Diplo: “Byrnes’s study makes a critical intervention into the history and historiography of the postwar and postcolonial immigrant communities in France, exploring how and why municipalities such as Saint-Denis and others reacted to and created … Continue reading News & Reviews

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Excerpt: Where Blackbirds Fly

November 3, 2025October 31, 2025 univnebpress

Shann Ray teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford University. He is the author of the story collection American Masculine, winner of numerous prizes including the American Book Award; the novel American Copper; and the poetry collection Atomic Theory … Continue reading Excerpt: Where Blackbirds Fly

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News & Reviews

October 22, 2025October 16, 2025 univnebpress

Reviews Starlings Review in Bird Guides: “A powerful story of the perils of messing with the ecosystem, however small and well-intentioned the original action might be.” Review in H-Net: “Starlings is both highly readable and deeply entertaining, tracing how starlings went … Continue reading News & Reviews

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Announcing the next book in Zero Street Fiction

August 26, 2025August 19, 2025 univnebpress

The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the selection of the next book in the fiction series, Zero Street. Slow Guillotine by Teo Rivera-Dundas will be published on March 1, 2026. Slow Guillotine follows three broke weirdos whose … Continue reading Announcing the next book in Zero Street Fiction

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