In What Is the Grass, Doty―a poet, a gay man, a New Yorker, and an American―keeps company with Whitman and his mutable, landmark work, Leaves of Grass, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet’s life and work.

Facing his father’s imminent death, and the unresolved conflict between them, Jay Kirk flees on a whirlwind assignment to find a mysterious manuscript in Transylvania before escaping again to the Arctic Circle. A surreal, high-wire act of narrative nonfiction, Avoid the Day is part detective story, part memoir, and part meditation on the value of experience.

Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world—from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. After her mother left when she was two and her father’s passing when she was thirteen, she was raised by her stepmother but struggled to come to terms with who she was. Aftershocks follows Nadia as she hauls herself out of turmoil and begins to write her own ground to stand on.