12 Rounds in Lo’s Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia, Todd D. Snyder, West Virginia University Press

Apocalypse, Darling, Barrie Jean Borich, Ohio State University Press

Bound, James McKean, Truman State University Press

Chocolatology, Angel York & Darin Wick, Microcosm Publishing

The Comet’s Trail: A Memoir of No Memory, Amy Nawrocki, Homebound Publications

Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s Tale of the Pot Rebellion, Kermit Schweidel, Cinco Puntos Press

Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction, Holl M. Kent, Kent State University Press

Love’s Long Line, Sophfronia Scott, Ohio State University Press

Love’s not Color Blind, Kevin Patterson, Thorntree Press

The Real Life of the Parthenon, Patricia Vigderman, Ohio State University Press

Soft & Cuddly, Jarett Kobek, Boss Fight Books

Thus I Lived with Words, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Writer’s Craft, Annette R. Federico, University of Iowa Press

To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss, and Radical Authenticity, L.M. Browning, Homebound Publications