God of River Mud
A Novel
Grappling with innate desires and LGBTQ identity, a family struggles under the oppressive expectations foisted on them by fundamentalist Christianity.
Finding the Singing Spruce
Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests
Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.
Mama Said
Stories
Original stories of Black family life in Louisville, Kentucky, for readers of Dantiel Moniz (Milk Blood Heat) and Kai Harris (What the Fireflies Knew).
“Surprising and revelatory. . . . I love this book.” —Stephanie Powell Watts, author of No One Is Coming to Save Us
Critical Geographies of Youth
Law, Policy, and Power
Scholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age.
Shattered
Fragments of a Black Life
A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
“Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books.” —Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.
Essential Voices
A COVID-19 Anthology
A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.
The Wounds That Bind Us
The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.
Abigail Field Mott's The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano
A Scholarly Edition
An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.