University Of Iowa Press

In 23 Woodcock in 22 Years, Jeff Wilkerson interweaves his twin passions of astrophysics and game hunting. Stories of how we understand the universe mesh with stories of time in the field, and in...

The language of Molly Brodak's first full-length collection, A Little Middle of the Night, is ever shifting, brightly sonic, and disarming while exploring the margin between nature and art, darkness...

A Vulture Best Book of 2024 In December 2018, we meet Rudy Coyle, a bar owner's son from Flushing, Queens, in the throes of a major quarter-life crisis. Cut out of the family business, he gets a...

Lucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection, and humor to contemporary fatherhood. Moving through memoir, lyric essay, literary analysis, and pop culture criticism, Attachments treats...

Author: Genevieve Marie GrabmanPublisher: University Of Iowa PressPublication Date: Apr 05, 2022Number of Pages: 210 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1609388151ISBN-13: 9781609388157

At the heart of the stories in Everything Flirts are some of life's trickiest questions: Why is it so hard to make the first move on a date? How do we find the person we will love? If you finally...

Food banks--warehouses that collect and systematize surplus food--have expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste. From their origins in North America in the 1960s, food...

At the heart of our inquiry is the nature of brain function. It is our view that our sensory world is disordered and chaotic. There are no labels for tables, chairs or airplanes, and indeed there are...

It's 1970, and on the Windy Creek Reservation in South Dakota, amidst the rise of AIM in neighboring Pine Ridge, a baby boy appears nestled in a box of Styrofoam peanuts on the doorstep of St. Rose...

2024 Best Book Awards; Finalist - Parenting & Family Gather your party, it's time to level up your parenting game! For years, millions of fans have looked to the beloved role-playing game Dungeons...

United in their fierce sense of place and infused with the fading echoes of a lost homeland, the stories in Jennine Cap? Crucet's striking debut collection do for Miami what Edward P. Jones does for...

Immerse yourself in a fascinating culinary journey through American dining from the mid-1970s through today. In a remarkable career that has spanned nearly 50 years, Wini Moranville has witnessed the...

A family murder kept secret, the mysterious disappearance of her father, the systematic erasing of family photographs, a turbulent relationship with her mother, layers of trauma and abuse. In Mother...

Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he...

Beginning with a deceptively simple question--What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as "black"?--Evie Shockley's Renegade Poetics separates what we think we...

Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his...

In his seventh book of poems, Salms, Aaron McCollough navigates the ancient, vexed lyric landscape of the Biblical Psalm, where gratitude is arrived at through complaint and yearning is smuggled in...

It is 1883 and America is at a crossroads. The Civil War is nearly twenty years in the past, Reconstruction has been crushed in the South, and the Gilded Age is bringing unprecedented prosperity to...

The Body Alone is an inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. It is a personal hybrid account incorporating research, scholarship, and memoir to examine chronic pain through...

Jessica Laser has given her generation a voice and a name in her masterful, funny and heartbreaking third collection, The Goner School. Members of this school, despairing and hopeful, count...

The Lengest Neoi embraces and complicates what it means to err--to wander or go astray; a deviation from a code of behavior or truth; a mistake, flaw, or defect. In this collection from Stephanie...

A Debutiful "Most Anticipated Debut Book of 2024" One of Electric Literature's Most Exciting Debut Short Story Collection of 2024 Named a Best Book of 2024 by Debutiful and Electric Literature The...

This book is an in-depth look at the natural history of every turtle species found in Iowa. Each of the thirteen species accounts include a sampling of the common names the species has been known by...

For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United States was walking. Professional pedestrians often covered 500 miles or more for up to six grueling days...

Answering an unexpected call to faith in her thirties, Melody Gee contends with what saying "yes" to conversion requires of an adopted daughter of Chinese immigrants. She looks for answers and...