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Jim Peterson’s newest poetry collection is Towheaded Stone Thrower, his tenth book overall. Peterson’s wife Harriet was a professional equestrian, and life among horses became a strong bonding element of their relationship. His life with her (including her love of horses and her illness) became the subject of his latest poetry collection, which was listed as one of the year’s best poetry collections of 2025 by The California Review of Books.

"If you’re looking for poems that are authentic, well-crafted, and often breathtaking, you’ve arrived."

-William Trowbridge, author of Father and Son

Native of Ogallala, Terese Svoboda published her second memoir and 24th book, Hitler and My Mother-in-Law in December of 2025. Threaded with dark humor and sharp observation, this intriguing memoir interweaves the lives of two women: the author, a renowned writer, and her husband‘s mother, the only female journalist to cover WWII in both Atlantic and Pacific theaters.

“Canny, meandering, and revelatory, it's a remarkable family memoir that stretches across major developments of the 20th century while questioning how the truth gets produced. Readers will be riveted.”

—Publishers Weekly

Patricia Henley’s fifth collection of short stories, Apple & Palm, was published by Cornerstone Press in 2026. The town of Whistle Pig, like the mountains that surround it, can appear unchanging, as immutable as geography. The lives of the characters in the linked stories in Apple & Palm contrast with that predictability.