Our New and Forthcoming Authors

chosen from Galileo’s summer 2023 and 2024 reading periods

Andy Bieman, Brocken Spectre, a novella about Zyg, a field recording hobbyist who has been trying to record two footsteps that never seem to turn out right.

J.A Bernstein, Afterlight, a memoir of an Israeli soldier unable to prevent his political irony from becoming his personal crisis.

Ashley Howell Bunn & Alexander Shalom Joseph, living / amends, a collection of deeply personal hybrid / prose poetry letters to people and places and things from our past, and to ourselves. Ashley and Alex are our 2025 Galileo Fellows.

Christopher Buckley, Imperfect Contrition, personal essays on poetry, surfing, eternity, and Catholic school.

Laton Carter, The Woman, a collection of poems that questions whether or not an ontological center is even necessary. Laton is our 2024 Galileo Fellow.

Lauren Crawford, Horse Camp, a chapbook of poems occurring at a low-funded horse camp for young Girl Scouts of America.

Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Wintering, a collection of poems speaking to the deadening sense that grips us. We often can’t explain it. The sun may be shining, the sky blue, and there may be nothing to worry us—but nonetheless…

David Daniel and George Cochrane, What Love Is, a graphic poetry collection. Think, illuminated pages. Think, Blake.

Alexa Doran, Exit Interview, a collection of poems that fight back against our need to organize disappointments.

Michael Klein, Happiness Ruined Everything, a collection of essays and devotions to poetry, conspiracy, sobriety, and Stephen Sondheim.

Heather Rounds, I Prefer the Praying Mantis, a hybrid memoir penned in a lyrical and luminous style inspired by place and placelessness.

Esperanza Hope Snyder, Mostly Blooming, a collection of poems embodying the diaspora of experience. Think, hopping a box car to Mars with stops in Colombia and Sicily. And the search for meaning / water / love in our fragile world / backyard / piano.