UNPAPERED: WRITERS CONSIDER NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CULTURAL BELONGING
University of Nebraska Press
Unpapered, edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez, is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins.
TENDING THE FIRE: NATIVE VOICES AND PORTRAITS
University of New Mexico Press
Tending the Fire by photographer Christopher Felver with an introduction by Linda Hogan and a foreword by Simon J. Ortiz, celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today.
CHILDREN OF THE DRAGONFLY: NATIVE AMERICAN VOICES ON CHILD CUSTODY AND EDUCATION
The University of Arizona Press
Children of the Dragonfly, edited by Robert Bensen, is the first anthology to document this struggle for cultural survival on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. Invoking the dragonfly spirit of Zuni legend who helps children restore a way of life that has been taken from them, the anthology explores the breadth of the conflict about Native childhood, taking readers from the boarding school movement of the 1870s to the Sixties Scoop in Canada and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in the United States, and spotlight the tragic consequences of racist practices of suppression of Indian identity in government schools and the campaign against Indian childbearing.
THE PEOPLE WHO STAYED: SOUTHEASTERN INDIAN WRITING AFTER REMOVAL
University of Oklahoma Press
Native literature, composed of western literary tradition is packed into the hyphens of the oral tradition. It is termed a “renaissance” but contemporary Native writing is both something old emerging in new forms and something that has never been asleep. The two-hundred-year-old myth of the vanishing American Indian still holds some credence in the American Southeast, the region from which tens of thousands of Indians were relocated after passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Yet, a significant Indian population remained behind after those massive relocations. Edited By Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams and Kathryn Walkiewicz.
TAKE A STAND: ART AGAINST HATE
A Raven Chronicles Anthology
Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, contains poems, stories and images from 117 writers, 53 artists, divided into five fluid and intersecting sections: Legacies, We Are Here, Why?, Evidence, and Resistance. We begin with Legacies because the current increased climate of hate in this country didn’t begin with the 2016 election, and to find its roots we must look to U.S. history.
BIRTHED FROM SCORCHED HEARTS: WOMEN RESPOND TO WAR
Fulcrum Publishing
Writers from around the world were asked to consider the devastating nature of conflict-inner wars, outer wars, public battles, and personal losses. Their answers, in the form of poignant poetry and essays, examine war in all its permutations, from Ireland to Iraq and everywhere in between, this moving anthology encompasses a wide range of voices. Edited by MariJo Moore.
VOICES CONFRONTING PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMORS
Johns Hopkins University Press
CHILDHOOD BRAIN & SPINAL CORD TUMORS: A Guide for Families, Friends and Caregivers
UNRAVELING THE SPREADING CLOTH OF TIME: INDIGENOUS THOUGHTS CONCERNING THE UNIVERSE
Renegade Planets Publishing. Edited by MariJo Moore
“All the tribes say the universe is just the product of mind… It fits perfectly with the quantum. Indians believe the universe is mind, but they explore the spiritual end of it, not the physical end.” —Vine DeLoria Jr.
California Poets at 60 and Beyond
Gunpowder Press
Women in a Golden State, edited by Diana Raab & Chryss Yost, includes poems and micro-essays from across California, ranging from awarded Poets Laureate to emerging writers who are finding new forms of expression. The collection examines the mythology and reality of being a woman of a certain age, especially in youth-obsessed California, inviting its readers to reconsider aging not as an end, but as an ongoing journey—one filled with beauty, strength, and boundless possibilities.
MIXED ROOTS
WRITERS ON MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY & BOTH/AND BELONGING
Beacon Press | Penguin Random House
Edited by Anne Liu Kellor
Mixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. Mixed Roots complicates the narrative around race and identity—dispelling narrow ideas that there is ever one “right” or singular way for folks to identify.
Born out of a community of writers formed through editor Anne Liu Kellor’s annual writing workshop, Mixed Roots collects 29 essays (plus additional resources) infused with a deep examination of privilege, microaggressions, whiteness, ancestral trauma, internalized racism, history, and paradoxical truths—going beyond common tropes found in many mixed-race narratives.
We all carry in our bodies the historical legacies, confusion, trauma, and harm caused by racialized experiences—Mixed Roots says we are multilayered, not easily defined or contained by one story, and as such, can speak to us all.
Terra Trevor 
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