Debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann is the author of The Beheading Game, released in March 2026, by the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House. Lehmann is an award-winning poet and essayist. She has an MFA in poetry from …
Good Job is poet Jessica Farquhar’s debut full-length collection. Published by Finishing Line Press in 2026, it’s an introspective and self-deprecating work, rendered with a conversational voice and dry wit. With this book, Farquhar reaches for something both ambitious and …
Meg Mullins is no stranger to the art of the short story. Her debut novel, The Rug Merchant, was conceived from “The Rug,” originally published by the Iowa Review and later anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2002. Though …
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.’s Tore All to Pieces, published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2026, is a vivid portrait of what it means to create a life in Appalachia. In a time so mired with misunderstanding, division, …
Dear Readers, With each issue of Miracle Monocle comes a fresh cohort of editors with exciting and ambitious ideas for renewing and growing the journal. This time around, the idea of exploring new ways of deepening our relationships with …
If you’ve ever heard of the Welsh fasting girl, it’s likely because you’re aware of certain obscure texts concerning nineteenth-century fasting girls or the history of the medical classification of anorexia nervosa. In her new novel, The Welsh Fasting Girl, …
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Anne Valente’s work is unapologetically honest in the sense that it skewers its readers’ hearts with hard-to-swallow emotion. She’s created a name for herself with her powerful short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names (Dzanc Books, 2014), and …
I’ve always loved nature—from the smallest ant to the most ancient sequoias. And what isn’t there to love? Beauty, growth, energy, warmth. Life. In his latest collection from the University of New Mexico Press, Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride, the poet Sy …