An author convalescing with a chronic illness observes and cares for a wild snail that becomes a daily companion. The book records close, patient attention to the snail’s behavior and anatomy while using that relationship to reflect on bodily experience, time, and recovery.

A yearlong, site-specific study of a single patch of old-growth forest: the author records regular close observations across seasons and links those moments to ecological facts and reflective thought.

A literary fantasy that situates several women’s lives inside a shared historical and cultural landscape, using personal narratives and communal memory to trace how past events shape identity and responsibility.

India Morgan Phelps (Imp) attempts to write her memoir while living with schizophrenia, anxiety, and OCD. Her account circles a romantic relationship with a transgender partner and a fixation on a mysterious, silent woman found beside a road.

A sequence of exploratory trips beneath landscapes — caves, catacombs, glacial moulins and other underground sites — that probe how subterranean spaces hold memory, burial, and signs of human activity across deep time.

Three sisters in an alternative-historical United States confront the erasure of witchcraft and seek to revive magical practices as a form of political and personal reclamation.

A linked-memoir of personal essays in which the author recounts growing up Vietnamese American, arriving as a refugee, and navigating family, race, and literary ambitions.

Penelope tells her side of the Odyssey: a conversational, retrospective account that revisits her marriage, life after Odysseus’s departure, and the aftermath of his return, while a Greek chorus of her twelve maids interrupts with short, varied genres to offer alternate viewpoints and collective voice.