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Kuky Villafuerte Through her nonprofit Señorita, Villafuerte is educating disadvantaged girls in Peru. “My plan is to see no woman on the streets in my city.”  Shelf Unbound: What...

A strong, intense debut novel examining the lives of three women during a time of heinous political violence in Peru.  Shelf Unbound: Blood of the Dawn goes back to the...

Derkowski’s memoir of working as a tree planter in the clear-cut forests of Canada is a riveting piece of literature.  Rocks Mills Pressrocksmillspress.com Shelf Unbound: Six Million Trees chronicles...

Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers Liksom, a painter and filmmaker, creates a cinematic travelogue of a woman traversing Russia by train. ...

Six poems from the Lambda-award winning author of Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures and When I Was Straight Red Hen Press Redhen.org Shelf Unbound: You have six poems with...

Sarabande Books http://sarabandebooks.org Buzzfeedcalled You Should Pity Us Instead one of the “most exciting new books of 2016.” We totally concur.  Shelf Unbound: These stories are intense and gut-wrenching,...

Random House http://penguinrandomhouse.com Following in the steps of Richard Ford and Annie Proulx, Wink is the American West’s newest star storyteller.  Shelf Unbound: The title story, “Dog Run Moon,”...

Soft Skull Press http://softskull.com “Tara Ison’s stories locate the pleasure in pain, the victory in betrayal, the beauty in depravity—they walk the line between love and debasement.” —Sarah Gerard,...

Shelf Unbound: You say that Newton’s and Einstein’s theories of space and time are mutually exclusive and you have proposed a new lunar theory. What’s a layman’s description of...

Shelf Unbound: What interested you in writing a novel about a family?  Owen Thomas: Setting the action for a novel in a family context helps to make the story...