Announcing AJB's Fall/Winter 2028 Season of Books

Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Alice James Award winner Anna Maria Hong and returning AJB poets Lia Purpura, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Jill McDonough.

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Anna Maria Hong’s poetry, fiction, and essays appear in The Nation, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, The Austin Chronicle, Southwest Review, The Stranger, The International Examiner, The Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry, 250 Poems, The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, Best New Poets, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Amy Clampitt Poet Residency, the Hawthornden Foundation, Fundación Valparaíso, and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, she is an Associate Professor at Mount Holyoke College. https://www.annamariahong.net/

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The author of ten collections of poems, essays, and translations, Lia Purpura is the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright Fellowships as well as five Pushcart prizes. Her collection of essays, On Looking, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems and essays appear in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Orion, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Agni, Emergence, and elsewhere. She lives in Baltimore, MD.

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Born in Maine, Jacques J. Rancourt is the author of Brocken Spectre (Alice James Books) and Novena (Pleiades Press). He has published poems in journals such as AGNI, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New Republic, Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.

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Jill McDonough's seventh book of poems, What You Wanted, is forthcoming from Alice James. She is the author of American Treasure (Alice James, 2022), Here All Night (Alice James, 2019), Reaper (Alice James, 2017), Where You Live (Salt, 2012), Oh, James! (Seven Kitchens, 2012), and Habeas Corpus (Salt, 2008). The recipient of three Pushcart prizes and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and Stanford’s Stegner program, she taught incarcerated college students through Boston University’s Prison Education Program for thirteen years. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Nation,The Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry. She directs the MFA program at UMass-Boston, started a program offering College Reading and Writing in two Boston jails, and is a visiting writer at a juvenile correctional facility. Her website: jillmcdonough.com.

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