New & Forthcoming Titles:
Lake Song: A Novel in Stories
Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela M. Sánchez
At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems
Austin Araujo
Me llamo Marcela: My Story as a Heritage Speaker
Written by Marcela T. Garcés
Illustrated by Andrés E. Garcés
The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories
Miles Harvey
No One Knows Their Blood Type
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, translated by Hazem Jamjoum
A Cleveland State University Poetry Center distributed title
I want to start by saying
Samuel Ace
A Cleveland State University Poetry Center distributed title
Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems
Lisa L. Phillips
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
Patient Sense: Rhetorical Body Work in the Age of Technology
Lillian Campbell
Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life
Seulghee Lee
Get Yo' Life: Black Queer Placemaking
R. J. Millhouse
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
Michelle Bumatay
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS: A Narrative Remix
Nghana tamu Lewis
China Pop!: Pop Culture, Propaganda, Pacific Pop-Ups
Sheng-mei Ma
Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space
Donnie Johnson Sackey
Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness: Exploring the Intersections of Power, Privilege, and Race
Edited by Robert Asen and Casey Ryan Kelly
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:
Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist, by Marlena Williams, is nominated for the Sarah Winnemucca Award For Creative Nonfiction at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards! Winners will be announced on April 28.
Front cover of Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist.Congratulations to Ashley Lawson! Her book, On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett, was nominated for a 2025 Edgar Award!
Front cover of On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson.Patricia Coral’s Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir is longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography! We are so delighted to have one our authors recognized for this award for the second year in a row!
Front cover of Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir by Patricia Coral.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!
Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir by Thomas C. Gannon is the Winner of the 2024 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize!
Front cover of Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir, by Thomas C. Gannon, featuring illustrations of two ravens with wings outstretched.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.