Books to Review

Fiction | Poetry | Nonfiction | Comics | Chapbooks + Mixed Genres

Last updated December 17, 2025

We are actively looking for people to write for Heavy Feather—and we cover books that aren’t on our list below—so reach out to Books Editor Jeff Chon if you’re interested in reviewing books, interviewing authors, or pitching another type of project. We only publish interviews and reviews online. We encourage 800 words per book review. Artist interviews, general criticism, and craft essays up to 4,000 words are welcome. Reviewers receive hard copies of the book if available.

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Fiction

Your Place in This World / Jake La Botz / Cornerstone Press

Afterlife / Angela Woodward / FC2 / 150 pp.

A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes / Nancy J. Allen / University of New Mexico Press / 200 pp.

Don’t Stop / Bonnie Friedman / Europa Editions / 304 pp.

Nice Places / Vincent Chu / Forest Avenue Press / 296 pp.

Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl / Lauren E. Osborn / Dzanc Books / 160 pp.

The Withers / Lee Upton / Regal House Publishing / 218 pp.

Love, Dirt / Bruce Johnson / University of Iowa Press / 154 pp.

Head Cleaner / David James Keaton / Datura Books / 400 pp.

Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun / Mónica Ojeda / Coffee House Press / 264 pp.

Burner / Katrina Denza / Cornerstone Press / 172 pp.

Guardians & Saints / Diane Josefowicz / Cornerstone Press / 202 pp.

The World Between / Zeeva Bukai / Delphinium Books / 150 pp.

Usurper / D. Harlan Wilson / Guide Dog Books / 172 pp.

The Irreparable / Gabriel Payares / Spurl Editions / 124 pp. / Translated by Paul Filev

Master of Starlight / DW Arden / Stalking Horse Press / 170 pp.

The Coast of Everything / Guillermo Stitch / Sagging Meniscus Press / 760 pp.

Double Back Diamond / Mads Gobbo & Miles Klee / Double Negative / 222 pp.

A Tomb in H-Section / Louis Armand / Equus Press / 664 pp.

The Dark Will End the Dark / Darrin Doyle / Tortoise Books / 220 pp.

Ravishing / Eshani Surya / Grove Atlantic / 320 pp.

The Tavern at the End of History / Morris Collins / Dzanc Books / 326 pp.

Who Killed One the Gun? / Gigi Little / Forest Avenue Press / 288 pp.

Sacred Rage / Steven Heighton / Biblioasis / 288 pp.

Nadezedah in the Dark / Yelena Moskovich / Dzanc Books / 204 pp.

Playback / Carla Malden / Rare Bird Books / 216 pp.

Selected Rage / Steve Heighton / Biblioasis / 288 pp.

Agathe, 6:00 p.m. to 7:27 / Taylor N. Thornburg / Lost Telegram Press / 156 pp.

Trying to Be / John Haskell / FC2 / 136 pp.

Soft Lightning / Jared Joseph / Bench Editions

Songs of No Provenance / Lydi Conklin / Catapult / 368 pp.

The Unrepentant / Sharmini Aphrodite / Gaudy Boy

The Nine Thoughts / Stefan Kiesbye / Broken Tribe Press

Before the Mango Ripens / Afabwaje Kurian / Dzanc Books / 338 pp.

Coydog / David Tromblay / Dzanc Books / 256 pp.

Under the Full and Crescent Moon / Aamir Hussain / Dundurn Books / 336 pp.

If the Owl Calls / Sharon White / Betty

The Museum of Future Mistakes / James R. Gapinski / BOA Editions / 162 pp.

The Voice in the Closet / Raymond Federman / Calamari Archive / 58 pp.

Femoid / S. A. B. Marcie / Calamari Archive / 338 pp.

Woman of the Hour / Claire Polders / Vine Leaves Press / 160 pp.

Destroy Me Gently, Please / Max Talley / Serving House Books / 240 pp.

The Biology of Luck / Jacob M. Appel / Sagging Meniscus Press

The School of Anecdotal Medicine / Jacob M. Appel / Sagging Meniscus Press / 240 pp.

Nova Scotia House / Charlie Porter / Nightboat Books / 240 pp.

Iris and the Dead / Miranda Schreiber / Book*hug Press / 180 pp.

The Confines / Anu Kandikuppa / Veliz Books / 195 pp.

The Perturbation of O / Joseph G. Peterson / University of Iowa Press / 140 pp.

Visiting Composer  / Andrea Avery / Miami University Press

Terra Incognita / Steph Post / Blackstone Publishing

It’s No Fun Anymore / Brittany Micka-Foos / Apprentice House Press / 124 pp. 

Poetry

The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor / Kathryn Cowles / Fence Books / 116 pp.

No More Animal Poems / Marc Vincenz / White Pine Press / 160 pp.

Beautiful Snacks / Stephen Paul Miller / Marsh Hawk Press / 208 pp.

This Poor Book / Fanny Howe / Graywolf Press / 192 pp.

A Grain of Sand in Lambeth / Geoffrey Babbitt / University of Nevada Press / 114 pp.

say, said / Fred Dale / Driftwood Press / 90 pp.

Rock Arrangement / Yan An / Carnegie Mellon University Press / Translated by Chen Du & Xisheng Chen

Song of Gray / Asha Futterman / University Press of Colorado  / 70 pp.

Atom and Void / Aaron Fagan / Princeton University Press / 72 pp.

A Violence / Paula Bohince / Princeton University Press / 88 pp.

Dispatch from Every Second Guess / Megan Gannon / Dzanc Books / 128 pp.

In the Good Years / Laura Cresté / Four Way Books / 128 pp.

E / Noa Micaela Fields / Nightboat Books / 120 pp.

Bodies Found in Various Places / Elvira Hernández / Cardboard House Press / 320 pp. / Translated by Daniel Borzutzky & Alec Schumacher.

Old Time Love Song Magic / Vidyā / Circumference Books / Translated by Andrew Schelling

#evolutionary poems / Mihret Kebede / Circumference Books / Translated by anna moschovakis

Apostasies / Holli Carrell / Perugia Press

Moon as Salted Lemon / Clayre Benzadón / Driftwood Press / 118 pp.

Padam Padam / Kevin Killian / Nightboat Books / 384 pp.

Glove Money / Sophia Dahlin / Nightboat Books / 96 pp.

Our Human Shores / Josh Fomon / Black Ocean Publishing / 182 pp.

The Nightmare Sequence / Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed / Nightboat Books / 192 pp.

a chronology of blood / Teo Shannon / University of New Mexico Press /  104 pp.

We Had Mansions / Mandy Shunnarah / Diode Editions

Fablemaker / Mandy Moe Pwint Tu / Gaudy Boy / 94 pp.

Monk Fruit / Edward Salem / Nightboat Books / 96 pp.

Perverts / Kay Gabriel / Nightboat Books / 96 pp.

Psalms from the Badlands / Hosho McCreesh / DrunkSkull Books

Deus Absconditus / Michael Barach & Brandi George / KERNPUNKT Press / 107 pp.

Algarabía / Roque Raquel Salas Rivera / Graywolf Press / 448 pp.

Which Walks / Laura Moriarty / Nightboat Books / 144 pp.

Reading Water / Derek JG Williams / Lightscatter Press / 105 pp.

Little Mercy / Robin Walter / Graywolf Press / 96 pp.

Mud in Our Mouths / Luiza Flynn-Goodlett / Cornerstone Press / 88 pp.

And Another Thing / Patrick Samuel / Broken Sleep Books / 74 pp.

Fascinations / Patrick Kindig / Finishing Line Press / 64 pp.

Regaining Unconsciousness / Haryette Mullen / Graywolf Press / 160 pp.

Elixir / Aaron Shurin / Nightboat Books

Sacrificial Steel / Cate McGowan / Driftwood Press / 104 pp.

A Real Man Would Have a Gun / Stacey Waite / University of New Mexico Press / 88 pp.

Entwine / Mary Newell / BlazeVOX Books / 92 pp.

Super Gay Poems / Edited by Stephanie Burt / Belknap Press / 368 pp.

Unmet / Stephanie Roberts / Biblioasis / 124 pp.

Proprioception / C. Prudence Arceneaux / Texas Review Press / 86 pp.

Lanterns in the Night Market / Mary Morris / Texas Review Press / 71 pp.

Moon Mirrored Indivisible / Farid Matuk / University of Chicago Press / 96 pp.

Saint of / Lisa Marie Basile / White Stag Publishing / 78 pp.

Fuel / Rosie Stockton / Nightboat Books / 88 pp.

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline / David Wojnarowicz / Nightboat Books / 80 pp.

Local Woman / Jzl Jmz / Nightboat Books / 96 pp.

What It Was Like to Be a Woman / Melinda Wilson / Indolent Books

The Tears of Things / Catherine Hamrick / Madville Publishing / 84 pp.

Cycle of Dreams / Eric Weiskott / punctum books / 122 pp.

Scream / Queen / CD Eskilson / Acre Books / 84 pp.

The Other Altar / Nicholas Gulig / University Press of Colorado / 109 pp.

Nonfiction

Seeing Joy / Alexandra Grabbe / Koehler Books / 240 pp.

Residual / Tisa Bryant / Nightboat Books / 272 pp.

Dandelion / Danielle Bainbridge / Jaded Ibis Press / 280 pp.

Such a Pretty Picture / Andrea Leeb / She Writes Press / 280 pp.

Wayfinding / Renee Gilmore / Trio House Press / 348 pp.

The Garden / Julie Carr / Essay Press & Pamenar Press

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless / Maria Pinto / University of North Carolina Press / 240 pp.

The Perils of Girlhood / Melissa Fraterrigo / University of Nebraska Press / 204 pp.

If You Say So / Michelle Herman / Galileo Press / 260 pp.

Little Deaths All in a Row / Elizabeth Earley / Jaded Ibis Press

Spine / John Patrick Higgins / Sagging Meniscus Press / 128 pp.

Guest Privileges / Gaar Adams / Dzanc Books / 302 pp.

Specimen / Sienna Liu / Split/Lip Press

Thank You for Staying with Me / Bailey Gaylin Moore / University of Nebraska Press / 226 pp.

Bad Forecast / Steffan Triplett / Essay Press

A Toast to St Martirià / Albert Serra / Coffee House Press / 144 pp. / Translated by Matthew Tree

My Mother in Havana / Rebe Huntman / Monkfish Book Publishing / 280 pp.

Unsavory Thoughts / Thomas Walton / Sagging Meniscus Press / 236 pp.

It All Felt Impossible / Tom McAllister / Rose Metal Press / 180 pp.

Imagine a Door / Laura Stanfill / Forest Avenue Press / 518 pp.

Love, Joe / Joe Brainard / Edited by Daniel Kane / Columbia University Press / 408 pp.

The Tilling / Matthew Morris / Seneca Review Books

¡PÓNK! / Marcus Clayton / Nightboat Books / 240 pp.

An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value / Jennifer Quartararo / BUNNY Presse / 148 pp.

Dances of Time and Tenderness / Julian Carter / Nightboat Books / 144 pp.

Comics

The Ephemerata / Carol Tyler / Fantagraphics / 232 pp.

Sleepless Planet / Maureen Burdock / Graphic Mundi / 240 pp.

The Witch’s Egg / Donya Todd / Avery Hill Publishing / 180 pp.

The Corus Wave / Karenza Sparks / Avery Hill Publishing / 144 pp.

Acid Box / Sara Kenney, James Devlin, & Emma Vieceli / Avery Hill Publishing / 200 pp.

Silk Cotton / Colleen Douglas / Rosarium Publishing / 224 pp.

R.U.R. / Kateřina Čupová / Rosarium Publishing / 264 pp. / Translated by
Julie Nováková

Okchundang Candy / Jung-Soon Go / Levine Querido / 128 pp. / Translated by Aerin Park

Raised by Ghosts / Briana Loewinsohn / Fantagraphics / 224 pp.

The Idris File / Dix / Fantagraphics / 132 pp.

The Wrestler / John Kenn Mortensen / Fantagraphics / 80 pp.

Go Figure / Guy Colwell / Fantagraphics / 95 pp.

Arsène Schrauwen / Olivier Schrauwen / Fantagraphics / 256 pp.

Night Drive / Richard Sala / Fantagraphics / 64 pp.

The Murder Next Door / Hugh D’Andrade / Street Noise Books / 152 pp.

Second Shift / Kit Anderson / Avery Hill Publishing / 140 pp.

Brittle Joints / Maria Sweeney / Street Noise Books / 160 pp.

Adrift on a Painted Sea / Tim Bird / Avery Hill Publishing

The Scrapbook of Life and Death / J. Webster Sharp / Avery Hill Publishing

Barking / Lucy Sullivan / Avery Hill Publishing

Safer Places / Kit Anderson / Avery Hill Publishing

Infinite Wheatpaste Vol. 1 – Catalytic Conversions / L. Pidge / Avery Hill Publishing

Disciples of the Soil / B. Mure / Avery Hill Publishing

Chapbooks + Mixed Genres

Late in the Day / Lisa Low / Seven Kitchens Press / 27 pp.

The Woman in the Sound / Ellery Capshaw / Bottlecap Press / 32 pp.

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards / M. Garcia Teutsch / Bottlecap Press / 40 pp.

Paper Money / Winshen Liu / Driftwood Press / 48 pp.

i[ↄ]onic+ log / Federico Federici / Calamari Archive / 154 pp.

CODON / Arreshy Young / Calamari Archive / 154 pp.

Autobiography of the [Undead] / Emilio Carrero / Calamari Archive / 152 pp.

Skewed ink [OoPs] / dd/Cal / Calamari Archive / 144 pp.

For disobeying / sasha hawkins / Calamari Archive / 172 pp.

For the Best / Nia Mahmud / Bottlecap Press / 24 pp.

this abattoir is a college / orchid tierney / Calamari Archive / 100 pp.

My Mother’s Armoire / Rina Shamilov / Bottlecap Press / 28 pp.

Horsemouth and Aquariumhead / Elizabeth Horner Turner / Black Lawrence Press / 46 pp.

Coming Home / Angela Siew / CutBank Books

The Apostasy of Proxy Godbot / Daniel Y. Harris / BlazeVOX / 254 pp.

The Kármán Line / Daisy Atterbury / Rescue Press / 180 pp.

When the Ocean Comes to Me / Alex Gurtis / Bottlecap Press / 28 pp.

The Theme Park of Women’s Bodies / Maggie Cooper / Bull City Press / 49 pp.

Tonalamatl / by Steven Alvarez / Calamari Archive / 160 pp.

Calvin Klein / James Gianetti / ELJ Editions / 30 pp.

Fruitful / Stefanie Kirby / Driftwood Press / 52 pp.

The psychic surgeon assists / Zebulon House / Calamari Archive / 84 pp.

Māori Maid Difficult / Nicola Andrews / Tram Editions

And Yet Held / T. De Los Reyes / Bull City Press / 48 pp.

Home Movies / Michael Wheaton / Bunny Presse / 68 pp.