Sarabande Books

  • Lake Effect

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    Winner of the 2024 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Lauren Groff

    A debut collection about the wild and hidden places in nature and the heart

    From Seattle to Istanbul, Lake Effect, the

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    • Author: Behrman, Hillary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 275
    • Publish Date: May 12 2026
    • ISBN10: 1956046593
    • Language: English
  • How to Disappear and Why: Essays

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    From acclaimed fiction writer Kyle Minor emerges a collection of essays all about disappearing.

    Considering a wide scope of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, Minor

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    • Author: Minor, Kyle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 260
    • Publish Date: February 24 2026
    • ISBN10: 1956046577
    • Language: English
  • Letters of the Alphabet Go to War

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    A bilingual poetry collection translated from the Ukrainian by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Letters of the Alphabet Go to War is Lesyk Panasiuk’s remarkable account of living in Bucha, Ukraine, dur… [more below]

    • Author: Panasiuk, Lesyk
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 20 2026
    • ISBN10: 1956046674
    • Language: English
  • Held: Essays in Belonging

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    From award-winning author Kathryn Nuernberger, Held is a collection of essays about mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis.

    Here is a collection about living in

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    • Author: Nuernberger, Kathryn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 204
    • Publish Date: November 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 195604647X
    • Language: English
  • The Longest Way to Eat a Melon

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    A cheeky debut of short fictions exploring the pitfalls and minor triumphs of the creative process.

    Equal parts melody and malaise, The Longest Way to Eat a Melon charts the activities of a cast of spe… [more below]

    • Author: Ross, Jacquelyn Zong-Li
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 252
    • Publish Date: June 10 2025
    • ISBN10: 1956046410
    • Language: English
  • My Heresies

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    Behold My Heresies: the latest and highly anticipated poetry collection from Alina Stefanescu.

    Riven by the tension between hagiographies, utopias, belief, longing, and grief, the poems of My Heresies

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    • Author: Stefanescu, Alina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: April 29 2025
    • ISBN10: 1956046372
    • Language: English
  • God-Disease

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    Winner of the 2023 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, selected by Manuel Mu?oz.

    Imagine a space where cities and municipalities are delineated only by letters. A place in flux, a freewheeling confl

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    • Author: Chang Joon, An
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 195604633X
    • Language: English
  • Book of Potions

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    Winner of the 2023 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, selected by Ilya Kaminsky.

    Written with tremendous urgency and ferocious candor, the prose poems of Book of Potions captures a woman caught in the

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    • Author: Watel, Lauren K.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: February 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 1956046356
    • Language: English
  • Leaving Biddle City

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    A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan.

    A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern s

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    • Author: Chan, Marianne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 1956046291
    • Language: English
  • Limber

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    “What a strange and unexpected treasure chest this is, filled with all manner of quirky revelations, all about the mundane sublime and the ineffable extraordinary. Most extraordinary of all, perhaps,

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    • Author: Pelster, Angela
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: April 15 2014
    • ISBN10: 1936747758
    • Language: English
  • The Witch of Eye

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    This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches” of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by… [more below]

    • Author: Nuernberger, Kathryn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: February 16 2021
    • ISBN10: 1946448702
    • Language: English
  • Him, Me, Muhammad Ali

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    Award-winning novelist Randa Jarrar’s new story collection moves seamlessly between realism and fable, history and the present, capturing the lives of Muslim women and men across myriad geographies an… [more below]

    • Author: Jarrar, Randa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: October 11 2016
    • ISBN10: 1941411312
    • Language: English
  • Impossible Children

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    In these inventive short stories, characters must navigate an impossible world: America as we know it. Two estranged brothers on a road trip attempt to reconcile but end up at a Revolutionary War reen… [more below]

  • Hustle

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    “David Martinez is like an algebra problem invented by America–he’s polynomial, and fractioned, full of identity variables and unsolved narrative coefficients. . . . Hustle is full of dashing nerve,

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    • Author: Martinez, David Tomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: May 13 2014
    • ISBN10: 1936747774
    • Language: English
  • Witch Wife

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    “Petrosino is a canny, wide-ranging and formally nimble writer with a magician’s command of atmosphere.”
    The New York Times, “The Best Poetry of 2017”

    Witch Wife is back in a brand new paperback editi

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    • Author: Petrosino, Kiki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: August 30 2022
    • ISBN10: 1956046100
    • Language: English
  • Bright: A Memoir

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    The highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino.

    Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work o

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    • Author: Petrosino, Kiki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: August 09 2022
    • ISBN10: 1946448923
    • Language: English
  • Space Struck

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    “Must-Read Poetry: October 2019” by Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions

    “Best Books of 2019,” Book Riot

    This astonishing, self-assured debut leads us on an exploration to the stars and back, begging us to

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    • Author: Lewis, Paige
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 08 2019
    • ISBN10: 1946448443
    • Language: English
  • Once a City Said: A Louisville Poets Anthology

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    A Louisville Poets Anthology edited by
    Louisville native and acclaimed
    Horsepower author Joy Priest.

    Conceived in the aftermath of city-wide
    protests in 2020, Once a City Said showcases the polyvocal com… [more below]

    • Author: Priest, Joy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: June 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1956046089
    • Language: English
  • 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me about the Multiverse

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    “These are poems with teeth and tenderness and so much knowledge. You’d overlook their sharp, glinting beauty at your peril.”
    –Kathryn Nuernberger, author of The Witch of Eye and RUE

    This is a book of

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    • Author: McGlynn, Karyna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: April 26 2022
    • ISBN10: 194644894X
    • Language: English
  • All Heathens

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    “Marianne Chan’s brilliant debut collection masterfully develops themes of identity and the long-term effects of colonization.”
    Largehearted Boy

    All Heathens is a declaration of ownership–of bodies

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    • Author: Chan, Marianne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 24 2020
    • ISBN10: 1946448524
    • Language: English
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