Reminder: The release party for Amanda Marbais’ debut collection, Claiming a Body, will be tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Read/Write Library Chicago. Amanda will be reading her work alongside Jac Jemc, Sara Wainscott, and Michael Czyzniejewski.

If you’re in the area, please attend this wonderful event!

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We would like to enthusiastically thank Jason Teal, Nathan Floom, and especially Casey Smith for Heavy Feather Review‘s wonderful new review of Amanda Marbais’ debut collection, Claiming A Body, winner of the 2018 Moon City Short Fiction Award.

Moon City Press is excited to announce the next book in our Missouri Author Series: Roundabout by Phong Nguyen. We’re thrilled to have Phong and his amazing experimental novel join our amazing family of authors and books. Watch for it this December 1!

Phong Nguyen is the author of a previous novel, The Adventures of Joe Harper (Outpost19, 2016, winner of the Prairie Heritage Book Award), and two story collections, Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History (Mastodon Publishing, 2016) and Memory Sickness and Other Stories (Elixir Press, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award). He co-edited the volume Nancy Hale: On the Life and Work of a Lost American Master with Dan Chaon and Norah Lind. His stories have appeared in more than 50 national literary journals in print and online, including Agni, Boulevard, Chattahoochee Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, Massachusetts Review, Mississippi Review, North American Review, and our own Moon City Review.

He is currently the Miller Family Endowed Chair in Literature and Writing at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where he lives with his wife—the artist Sarah Nguyen—and their three children.

Please consider coming out to support our reading celebrating the life and work of poet and former MSU professor Jane Hoogestraat this Friday at 6:00 p.m. in the PSU Union Club. Moon City Press had the honor of publishing her posthumous collection, Here on This Plain, this past fall. Many of Jane’s friends, students, and colleagues will be reading her work.