Bacon Press Books

After years of living with her abusive husband, Cookie Wagner snaps. She grabs a newly-sharpened knife to defend herself against his latest attack. Convinced she's killed him, she flees to remote...

A collection of life stories by 30 authors from seven countries. They write of their attempts to let go of everything from crippling grief and abusive boyfriends to dead husbands, fear of horses, old...

As a little girl Sigga lifted calves on the farm. Why? To get strong enough to smash the men whose fingers reached for her in the dark. One day she'd get her revenge. As a farm worker in Iceland 100...

SUNSET AT ROSALIE tells the story of a young girl, Carlin McNair, and her family on a failing cotton plantation in Mississippi during the early 1900s. The coming of the boll weevil and the sharp...

A magical place, a lost history. Trochenbrod was a bustling commercial center of more than 5,000 people, all Jews, that was hidden deep in the forest in northwest Ukraine. It thrived as a tiny Jewish...

The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell's debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her...