Congratulations to these Shō No. 3: Revival Issue (Summer/Fall 2023) contributors, whose books were recently published or are forthcoming! Their books are linked below. You can also read the bios of all Shō No. 3 contributors here.
Debut Poetry Collections
Ally Ang: Let the Moon Wobble, forthcoming (Alice James Books, 2025)
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer: Bad Animal (Riot in Your Throat, 2023) — Winner of the 2024
Central New York Book Award in Poetry
Jo Angela Edwins: A Dangerous Heaven (Gnashing Teeth Publishing, 2023)
Nadine Hitchiner: Practising Ascending (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023)
Luke Johnson: Quiver (Texas Review Press, Fall 2023)
Dan Murphy: Estate Sale (University of Utah Press, Spring 2025) — Winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize, selected by Ange Mlinko
Sage Ravenwood: Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost (Gallaudet University Press, Fall 2023)
Cassandra Whitaker: Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf (Jackleg Press, July 2025)
Alfonso Zapata: To Pay for Our Next Breath (Texas Review Press) — Winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize: Kentucky
Debut Poetry Chapbooks
Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer: Small Geometries (Ethel, 2023)
Cass Garison: Beauty Exasperated (Common Meter Press, 2024)
Francesca Leader: Like Wine or Like Pain (Bottle Cap Press, 2024)
Natalie Marino: Under Memories of Stars (Finishing Line Press, 2023)
R.S. Mengert: Carnival of Theodicy (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
Kailee Pedersen: Pastorale (Burnside Review, 2025) — Winner of the 2024 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest
Peter Sagnella: Coming to Terms (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023)
Alex Tretbar: Kansas City Gothic, forthcoming (Broken Sleep, 2025)
Alex Tretbar: According to the Plat Thereof, forthcoming (Ethel, 2025)
Alfonso Zapata: Together Now (Belle Point Press, Fall 2024)
Poetry Collections
Claudia Buckholts: Travelers on Earth (Main Street Rag, Spring 2023)
Sean Thomas Dougherty: Death Prefers the Minor Keys (BOA, Fall 2023)
Luke Johnson & Megan Merchant: A Slow Indwelling (Harbor Editions, Fall 2024)
Luke Johnson: Distributary (Texas Review Press, 2025)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim: Dawns Tomorrow (Sungold Editions, 2024)
Megan Merchant: Hortensia, in Winter (New American Press, Fall 2024) — Winner of the 2023 New American Poetry Prize
Alison Pelegrin: Our Lady of Bewilderment (LSU Press, 2022) — Winner of the Phillip H. McMath Post Publication Book Award
Robert L. Penick: The Art of Mercy (Hohm Press, Fall 2023)
Jennifer Reeser: Strong Feather (Able Muse Press, 2023)
Andrew Schelling: Songs of Mirabai (White Pine Press, 2024)
Fred Voss: Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of Roses (Smokestack Books, 2023)
Chapbooks
Dan Grote: We Are All Doing Time (Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, 2023)
Bunkong Tuon: What is Left (Jacar Press, 2024)
Debut Novels
Kailee Pedersen: Sacrificial Animals (St. Martin’s Press, Fall 2024) — Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, NYPL Best Books of the Year.
Bunkong Tuon: Koan Khmer (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2024)
Some of these books are listed on our “Books from Shō No. 3 Contributors” on Bookshop.org.