Michelle Alexander, courtesy of author.
Pre-Order Fall 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 October 1, 2025, and will be available for pre-order at Bookshop.org this summer. Every purchase at Bookshop.org financially supports independent bookstores.
Michelle Alexander is an American-Trinidadian poet, creative nonfiction writer, and a New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study graduate. She is an MFA candidate at Columbia College of Chicago. Her work has appeared in Salt Hill. She is a poet in residence with the Chicago Poetry Center.
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
