The 2018-2020 poet-in-residence at Idyllwild Arts Academy, she now lives in Columbia, Missouri, where she is a PhD student in English and creative writing. Her poems have appeared in journals including New England Review, Pleiades, Copper Nickel, 32 Poems, Hayden's Ferry Review, and many others. In doing so, she maps a blueprint for "lay into the world / like it's good enough." Biographical InformationĬaylin Capra-Thomas's other works include the chapbooks Inside My Electric City (YesYes Books) and The Marilyn Letters (dancing girl press). To lay open the hills you haven’t seen.” Caylin Capra-Thomas writes towards understanding the strangers we meet and knowing the stranger within. Recursive, deliberate, and as adaptive as their titular lizard, these poems invite us to listen so as to better hear “.the sweet shriek / of those far-off trains you suspect are coming / to claim you. It’s going to be a great year, and we’re so grateful to independent booksellers for helping to connect our books with readers through it all.Alive to the beauty and anxiety of new worlds and people, Iguana Iguana imagines a tough and tender soundtrack for tumbleweeds in search of roots. We have a forthcoming book about Dirk Nowitzki and what he means to Dallas by Zac Crain, as well as the latest book, In Concrete, by our bestselling author, Anne Garréta, of France. We publish our first kids’ book this summer, Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll, narrated by indigenous Mexican Nahuatl storyteller Silvestre Pantaleón Esteva and illustrated by Inocencio Jiménez Chino, translated from the Nahuatl by Jonathan Amith. What’s ahead for DVP in 2021? We are finalizing a merger with the legendary publishing house, Dalkey Archive Press, as an editorial imprint under Deep Vellum. We are so lucky to have Kendra, one of my favorite writers in the world, living right here in Dallas. It hit me in a way that made me want to hug everyone in the world, especially in Iceland. What have you read recently that has impacted you? Kendra Greene’s debut book, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland’s Most Unusual Museums, is beautifully written, humane and tender in its treatment of the characters within it, and transportive in the best way - the most valuable book I read in the past year. Reading brings the world together in some small way, a word at a time. Without reading the world’s literature, we have no idea how the world is sharing stories, creating art, understanding history, and we have no idea the connections between us all. That is a radical act that we need more of in this world. Why do you feel the work of translation and reading international authors is important for American readers? Reading takes you outside of your head for a second, into the head of another person who is sharing their vision, their way of seeing the world, and their understanding of processing the human condition. We opened our Dallas bookstore, Deep Vellum Books, in 2015 to continue hosting literary programming and help readers discover books by some of the most compelling writers and independent publishers that don’t get the attention they deserve. Our goal is to make literature fun, inclusive, tear down the walls of elitism in the literary world, bring into the foreground the conversation that happens between authors and readers privately during the reading experience and communally in public events. We have six editorial imprints led by individual editors with singular visions that fulfill our mission. We are a nonprofit publishing house and literary arts center that publishes books from around the world in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and children’s. Inspired by a lifelong love of Russian literature and a curiosity for stories that process this shared human condition, I founded Deep Vellum in 2013 with the mission to bring the world in conversation through literature by publishing boundary-pushing, mind-expanding stories from every corner of the globe. I’m Will Evans, executive director of Deep Vellum Publishing. Tell me a little bit about yourself and Deep Vellum Publishing.
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