Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings

A harrowing collection of seventy narratives—covering over fifty years of shootings in America—written by those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors. Learn more...

Named by Bustle as a 2018 Feminist Book That Will Change Your Year

The war on body image is fought behind closed doors, in dressing rooms, closets, bathrooms, and in the darkest corners of our society. It is a war that has claimed many lives and will continue to do so as it rages, a war rooted in self-hatred and self-loathing, born out of the media and pop-culture’s idea of what it means to be beautiful. Beauty pageants, swimsuit calendars, “thigh gap,” for longer than we care to admit, Americans have allowed our children -girls and boys- to participate in a culture where they are rewarded for how they look rather than their strong minds and hearts. Thankfully, the body positivity revolution has begun. Learn more...

Sara Brody thought she had met her soulmate in Tad Bolak, a charming exchange student. Their whirlwind romance includes nights staring at the stars, declarations of love, and promises to talk often when Tad must return to his native Poland to complete his Master’s Degree. But Sara’s idealistic view of Tad and plans to be together when he gets his degree come to a shattering halt when he admits to having a fiancee back home. Learn more...

“Loren Kleinman brings a poet's sensibility to her captivating memoir that is at once serious and sly, self-deprecating and a powerful declaration of self. Her memoir is less about memory than it is a fine-tuned, near magical consideration of the small details that ultimately make manifest the large passions of her life. Her edgy meditations are a bit like a delicately rendered Lost and Found for the great grab bag of human experience--instantly relatable, brash, intimate and true.”

—Rita Gabis, author of A Guest At The Shooters' Banquet

Love stays with us far longer than we realize.

Stay with Me Awhile shows how our underlying love for objects, memory, sex, books, and nature have a lasting impact on our everyday lives. As the world decays around us, the only way we can preserve our presence is to stay, embed ourselves in the experience of living deliberately, to look at one another with lasting conviction to be. Learn more...

“In Stay with Me Awhile, Loren Kleinman writes that the body is a poem, but each of her sensual and lyrical prose poems is a body, a living, singing, moving body of work. These poems are immediate as apples and cigarette smoke; they capture your complete attention. Recommended to any reader who wants to feel as well as read a poem.”

—Larissa Shmailo, author, Patient Women

After disaster, there is always the possibility to love again. Poet Loren Kleinman invites us to witness snapshots of a complex life—including accounts of abuse, grief, suicide, love, and loss-rendered poetic yet accessible. Learn more...

The Dark Cave Between My Ribs appeals to all who crave an authentic voice that is tangible, unique, and universal.

Named one of the best poetry collections of the first half of 2014 by Entropy Magazine.

Winner of the 2003 Spire Poetry Competition Learn more...

Excerpt from "Something for Your Arms I":

Sometimes silence settles and stays so strong—
a thick blanket resting upon our backs
enshrouds us within this place, buried corpse.
Our lips fold underneath a stucco canopy,
My mind exploding delirium;
it is so easy to find comfort here,
against your lips pulsing love sick love sick.

Indie Authors Naked explores & defines the world of independent publishing.

Comprised of a series of essays and interviews by indie authors, booksellers and publishers, readers will get a look at the many aspects of the indie community, where publishing professionals of all types come together with the simple goal of creating something unique; something that speaks directly to the reader, no middleman necessary. Learn more...