Following the divorce of her parents in the mid-1970s, teenager Jackie Stalnaker is sent away to live with her grandmother in the small town of Burnt ...

These stories help define the world of the Texas-Mexico Frontier--an explosive world where lives break, loves shatter, and healing happens. Kathryn Lane ...

This collection of short fiction delves into relationships with poignant insights, illuminating realities of living, dying, and innocence set in an idyllic ...

When rural and seemingly-placid Southeast Kansas State University is rocked by death of an English professor, Dr. Tom Holt begins asking questions—questions ...

A native of New Orleans, with deep roots in south and central Louisiana, Laura Quinn Guidry lived and worked as a healthcare administrator in Houston ...

Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning ...

Dorothy Ellis Barnett’s savvy poetry mirrors a life lived in the service of art, revealing a writer who misses nothing, remaking a world she has ...

Told with wry black humor and bent irony and weirdly oddball hope, The Messes We Make of Our Lives explores the ways its characters face absurd snags—blunders ...

An anthology of poetry and prose by the award-winning instructors and participants of the 2014 Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop, which met in Seadrift ...

Since its inception, the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, a writing residency  located on an isolated ranch of the edge of the Texas Hill Country, has been ...