ALT The logo for Graywolf Lab is a hand-drawn wolf behind the word "LAB" in teal font, against a darker green background.

ALT The cover of Diane Seuss's MODERN POETRY is a photograph of Diane, holding a bit of black tulle fabric against her cheek.

ALT If you are like me, to learn of the gods you must beg, borrow, or steal. Eavesdrop, as gossip is sagacity, a word I learned from Emily Dickinson. Don’t underestimate direct experience. Ants know earth. Dragonflies know air. A cobbled mind is not fatal. You have to be willing to self-educate at a moment’s notice, and to be caught in your ignorance by people who will use it against you. You will mispronounce words in front of a crowd. It cannot be avoided. But your poems, with all of their deficiencies, products of lifelong observation and asymmetric knowledge, will be your own. —from “My Education”

ALT The Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Open for submissions Feb. 1 - 29 A $20,000 advance and publication by Graywolf Press will be awarded to the most promising and innovative literary nonfiction project by a writer not yet established in the genre. The winning author will also receive a $2,000 stipend intended to support the completion of their project.

ALT 2020 Guggenheim Fellow Jenny Boully's CLOSE COVER, STRIKE GENTLY, a collection of autobiographical essays; and PARALLAX, a lyric memoir on reverence, loss, calamity, and hybrid identity, beginning with the author's own near-death experience and ending with the scattering of her sister's cremains, and encountering ghosts, sea monkeys, abandoned kittens, and a flying trapeze along the way, to Carmen Gimenez at Graywolf, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2025 and spring 2027, by Chris Fischbach at Fischbach Creative (world English).