Celebrate Graywolf's forty-five years of adventurous publishing and welcome our biggest literary stars to our home town

The 2019 Graywolf Literary Gala will feature Eula Biss (On Immunity; Notes from No Man's Land), Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts; The Red Parts), and Claudia Rankine (Citizen; The White Card), with introductions by Danez Smith (Don't Call Us Dead).

Join us for a wonderful evening featuring three authors who embody Graywolf's mission, and enjoy a gourmet appetizer and cocktail reception followed by a seated program with wine, cheese, and desserts. As Graywolf looks back on forty-five years of adventurous publishing, help us celebrate becoming a destination press for some of the most ground-breaking writers of our time.

Single tickets are $275, and two or more tickets are $250 each ($75 of each ticket is not tax-deductible). Sponsorships are available starting at $1,000; to learn more, contact Rachel Fulkerson at fulkerson@graywolfpress.org.

All proceeds support Graywolf Press, a nonprofit publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. Reserve your place today!

About the Authors

Eula Biss is most recently the author of On Immunity: An Inoculation, which was a New York Times best seller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was named a Best Book of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and others. Graywolf just published the 10th anniversary of Biss’s critically acclaimed essay collection Notes from No Man’s Land, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.

“Whatever topic [Biss] takes up she dissects and analyzes with startling insight that comes from deep reading and original thinking. She’s important to this moment, important to opening up what essays can be, important for setting a standard of integrity and insight, and she’s also a joy to read.”—Rebecca Solnit
 

Maggie Nelson is the author of the groundbreaking, genre-bending memoir The Argonauts, which was a New York Times best seller and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Nelson is also the author of several other books, including The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. In 2016, Nelson was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

“Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation.”—Olivia Laing, The Guardian
 

Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric, which was a New York Times best seller; won the Forward Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the NAACP Image Award; and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Citizen is also the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and was a finalist in the Criticism category, making it the first book in the award’s history to be a double nominee. Citizen is the best-selling Graywolf title of all time and has been published in twelve other countries. Rankine is the founder of the Racial Imaginary Institute, is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. In addition to Citizen, Rankine is the author of six other books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and the play The White Card. Her newest book, Just Us: An American Conversation, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2020.

“Claudia Rankine is a poet illuminating the emotional and psychic tensions that mark the experiences of many living in twenty-first-century America.”—MacArthur Citation​

Danez Smith is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize. Smith is also the author of [insert] boy, which won the Lambda Literary Award, and Homie (forthcoming from Graywolf in 2020).