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Women Surrounded by Water

A Memoir

Patricia Coral

“Revisiting the history of her ancestras, Patricia Coral tells her own story while also giving voice to the experiences of three generations of women.” —Mayra Santos-Febres

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Me llamo Marcela

My Story as a Heritage Speaker

Written by Marcela T. Garcés, illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés

“A candid rumination on cultural heritage, connection, and determined individuality.” —Kirkus

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Zones of Encuentro

Language and Identities in Northern New Mexico

Lillian Gorman

“Gorman provides a corpus of data to show how New Mexico’s ethnoracial and migrant histories have shaped New Mexicans’ views about language and identity.” —Dolores Inés Casillas

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Through Fences

Written by Frederick Luis Aldama, illustrated by Oscar Garza

“The stories of these varied characters come alive on the page … A worthy addition to high school libraries.” —Karin Greenberg, School Library Journal

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Finding Querencia

Essays from In-Between

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

“Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories.” —Rigoberto González

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New & Forthcoming Titles:

Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker book cover

Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker

Written by Marcela T. Garcés
Illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés

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No One Knows Their Blood Type

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Hazem Jamjoum

A Cleveland State University Poetry Center distributed title

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Softly Undercover

Hanae Jonas

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Human Rights on the Move

Edited by Wendy S. Hesford, Momar K. Ndiaye, and Amy Shuman

Front cover of Through Fences, Written by Frederick Luis Aldama and Illustrated by Oscar Garza, featuring images of several characters from the interior peeking through openings in a chain link fence.

Through Fences

Frederick Luis Aldama and Oscar Garza

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About the Ohio State University Press:

The Ohio State University Press was established in 1957 and currently publishes 50-60 new books a year. We specialize in literary and cultural studies (including comics, narrative theory, Victorian studies, and medieval studies), American studies, rhetoric and communication, gender and sexuality studies, and race and ethnic studies (including Black studies and Latinx studies). We also acquire books in regional studies on our Trillium imprint, creative works on our Mad Creek imprint, and linguistics, and we publish the annual winners of The Journal’s non/fiction and poetry prizes.

In addition to its books, the Press publishes a distinguished group of journals including Inks, the journal of the Comics Studies Society, Adoption & Culture, American Periodicals, Victorians, North American Journal of Celtic Studies, and Narrative.


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Latest News:

We are now accepting applications for the Intersectional Rhetorics writing retreat! This fully funded retreat, taking place immediately after the 2025 RSA Summer Institute, offers one-on-one manuscript feedback and a book contract with the Intersectional Rhetorics series. Apply by December 1, 2024.

Congratulations to Lesley Bannatyne for winning the 2024 AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction! Her winning manuscript, Lake Song, is forthcoming from Mad Creek Books.

Congratulations to Mag Gabbert for winning the 2023 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry for her book, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS!

Front cover of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS by Mag Gabbert.

Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie, written by Frederick Luis Aldama and illustrated by Chris Escobar, received an Honorable Mention for the Alma Flor Ada Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book Award from the International Latino Book Awards!

Front cover of Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie.

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito and The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland by Agata Izabela Brewer are both on the shortlist for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing! Huge congratulations to both authors!

We welcome Allison L. Rowland as a new series editor for New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality, joining existing editors Christa Teston and Shui-yin Sharon Yam. Thank you to outgoing editor Wendy S. Hesford for all her contributions to the series!

V. Jo Hsu’s Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics won the 2024 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition!

Front cover of Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics by V. Jo Hsu.

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed is a Finalist for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies!

Front cover of The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, by Roger A. Sneed, with the title in very large letters and a photo of bright stars in outer space showing through the letters.

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito is a Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography!

Front cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir, by Susan Kiyo Ito, featuring a background of blue fabric with white cranes and an evergreen branch sewn onto it.