Miami University Press

09/21/2025

Happy to see THE ELECTRON-GHOST CASINO by Randolph Healy in the mix here. Thanks, Jeremy Noel-Tod!

A week of poems from books I'm enjoying

09/12/2025

It was a delight to spend time with novella author Andrea Avery this week! Thanks to everyone who came out to the reading! Andrea visited Miami’s campus on Monday to read from her novella, VISITING COMPOSER, sign copies, and answer questions about craft and research.

09/07/2025

If you're in the Oxford, Ohio area, join us tomorrow, Monday, September 8 at 6:30PM in Harris Hall for a reading from Andrea Avery, author of VISITING COMPOSER!

Hear Miami University Press fiction author Andrea Avery read from her award-winning novella, VISITING COMPOSER –– Monday, September 8 at 6:30PM in Harris Hall. "Andrea Avery’s Visiting Composer is a fast, spooky, quietly devastating, paradoxically animating read. Her characters are reaching be...

09/07/2025

"The Electron-Ghost Casino conducts sensorial/semantic/surprising pleasures in poems with quickness, an alert ear, and sometimes tenderness, up to the s***f of a good conversation—digressive, propulsive, slapstick." –Sean Pierson reviews Randolph Healy for Restless Messengers

Reviews of recent volumes of poetry and related works of criticism and poetics

09/03/2025

"Writing and music are all bound up for me" –– VISITING COMPOSER author Andrea Avery was featured on her local NPR station in Phoenix. Listen in:

“Visiting Composer” was written by Andrea Avery, who will speak Thursday night at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix.

08/31/2025

Good news! We've extended our 2026 Novella Prize deadline by a day! You have more time to polish up your manuscripts and send them our way before September 1 at midnight EDT.

https://mupress.submittable.com/submit

08/28/2025

"A deeply moving book, one that will live long in the reader’s mind"

Thanks, Billy Mills, for including our editor's newest book in this review –– STUDIES IN THE UNNATURAL WORLD by Keith Tuma (Wild Honey Press)

Stand Ins, Vicky Sparrow, RunAmok, 2022 Drawn, Peter Hughes, Broken Sleep Books, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-917617-18-5, £9.99 Flight Unit, Jimmy Cummins, Veer2, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-911567-66-0, £8.00 Studies…

07/28/2025

**Book Launch Reading** Calling all Phoenix friends ––Andrea Avery is reading August 21 at Changing Hands Bookstore!

Andrea Avery, author of Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano

07/28/2025

"searing humor and feminist fury" -- Kelcey Ervick on her obsession with Andrea Avery's VISITING COMPOSER

https://bookshop.org/p/books/visiting-composer-andrea-avery/22728819

07/23/2025

"fast, spooky, quietly devastating" –– Bonnie Nadzam on VISITING COMPOSER

https://bookshop.org/p/books/visiting-composer-andrea-avery/22728819

07/22/2025

Praise for VISITING COMPOSER, our newest : https://bookshop.org/p/books/visiting-composer-andrea-avery/22728819

07/14/2025

Late to the party on this - Congrats to MUPress author Geoffrey Squires on his poetry book, TRIPTYCH (LegalHighsPress 2024)! Here's a selection