Michelle Alexander, courtesy of author.
Pre-Order Winter 2025
Launch Date: March 1, 2026
ISBN:978-1-941561-43-0
Paperback | 5.25″ X 8.0″
Winner of the 2024 New American Poetry Prize, Michelle Alexander’s collection A Stone’s Throw from Cray will launch on March 1, 2026, and will be available for pre-order at Bookshop.org this winter. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores.
Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, and interdisciplinary practitioner. She graduated from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, receiving the Herbert Rubin Prize in Poetry, and holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago, where she was a Nathan Breitling Poetry Fellow. She has served as a Poet in Residence for the Chicago Poetry Center and as a Visiting Teaching Artist for the Poetry Foundation’s “Forms and Features” series. She is the recipient of the Furious Flower 2024 Poetry Prize and a co-founder + Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Unwoven Literary & Arts Magazine. Her poetry collection, A Stone’s Throw from C r a y, the New American Prize winner (2024), was a finalist for The National Poetry Series, The Word Works Competition: Washington Prize, The 42 Miles Prize, and The Lightscatter Prize.
Publicity Contact: Summer Hornbostel | summer.hornbostel@newamericanpress.com
Finalists for the NEW AMERICAN POETRY PRIZE:
- At the Mercy of the Flies, by Matt McBride of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
- Big Blind Special, by Natan Last of Brooklyn, New York
- The Community of Rain, by Ann Lovett of Bainbridge Island, Washington
- Redwork, by Stefania Gomez of Chicago, Illinois
- Some Americans, by Carolyn Guinzio of Fayetteville, Arkansas
- A White Horse Is Not a Horse, by Angelo Mao of Charlottesville, Virginia
