PUBLISHER OF POETRY, FICTION, & NONFICTION

Evan Morgan Williams’ latest book, The Divide (Cornerstone Press February 2026), is a collection of short fiction rooted in the Mountain West. The stories collected here center on characters who face divides not unlike a land punctuated by mountain ranges: couples quarrel over past lovers while facing present obstacles, sometimes to the detriment of their potential survival; men recall the ghosts of lovers of the past while the chasm between themselves and their current partners grows; a brother is reminded of his lost sister and all the girls who are not her. The mountainous, often frigid landscape plays a large role here, complicating events, providing opportunities for characters to prevail against natural odds, or serving as a reminder of the peril these characters face as they wrestle with specters of the past.

Court Ludwick’s debut collection, These Strange Bodies (2024, ELJ Editions), presents a hybrid assemblage of texts that is two parts fragmented memoir of early adulthood, one part poetic exploration of embodiment. Ludwick’s unflinching archaeology of self results in a book that is at once deeply personal and creatively inquisitive.