Alice James Books

Traversing an impossible love story, Leigh Sugar’s debut collection, Freeland examines the unbreakable bond between the author and an incarcerated writer.Drawing critical connections between her personal and familial history, the Jewish diaspora, the...

Reckoning with infertility, adoption, and love under pressure, Kelly Grace Thomas’s Future Tense is a searing memoir-in-verse about a woman’s fight to become a mother while losing her own.Thomas spends three years trying for a child who never arrives....

Drawing from the sticky, milk-drenched reality of childbirth and pregnancy, Mothersalt explores the intimacies and bewilderment of early motherhood, illuminating the myriad ways in which the self, reconstituted through birth, can emerge into powerful,...

Sugar Work chronicles the complexities of womanhood, race, and gender that arose from growing up around sex work in Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Poems investigate beauty and whiteness, the aftermath of sexual trauma on the female body, divorce,...

Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner's late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016).The poems are also a love letter to our planet during the ongoing sixth mass extinction....