Creative Writing

This novel of a wounded Vietnam veteran’s homecoming is both “a searing war story and a page-turning thriller” (The Washington Post). By Laura Harrington. Read more

In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Read more

This collection of poems returns to the imagery that has come to define Mary Oliver's life's work, transporting us to marshland and coastlines of her beloved home, Provincetown, MA. Read more

From the creation of day and night and the Sun and the Moon, to the origin of Death, this collection of simple retellings is richly supported by the artwork of acclaimed artist Germaine Arnattaujuq. By Germaine Arnattaujuq and Neil Christopher. Read more

In this debut collection, No‘u Revilla crafts a lyric landscape brimming with shed skin, water, mo‘o, ma‘i. It is an intergenerational reclamation of the narratives foisted upon Indigenous and queer Hawaiians—and it does not let readers look away. Read more

This book was first published in 1972 by the Graphic Arts Workshop of the Portland Museum of Art School in Oregon, as a limited edition of 200 copies. Read more

In this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America's foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures that have inspired so many poets to sing for centuries. Read more

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. Read more

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Read more

Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, an “astonishing” book of poetry from Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Primitive and “one of our very best poets” (New York Times Book Review). Read more

By Kira Jane Buxton. In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom​, the animal kingdom's "favorite apocalyptic hero's back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic . Read more

By Steve Burrows. The seventh Birder Murder Mystery. Some crimes are beyond the reach of the law. Read more

An collaboration of poetry and sumi, this book by nature writer and poet Constance Sidles and sumi artist Hiroko Seki is a visual and poetic paean to the nature at Montlake Fill, a natural area in the heart of north Seattle. Read more

From Jerry Brotton, the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe for millennia. Read more

From Jackie Morris, the co-author and illustrator of The Lost Spells, and The Lost Words—single animal focused meditations in accordion form. Read more