Support Fifty Years of Independent Publishing

Join us for an evening to remember! This fundraising gala will feature a cocktail reception, dinner, and a literary program with essential Graywolf authors Natalie Diaz, Carmen Maria Machado, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Vijay Seshadri speaking to their experience with Graywolf, reading from their work, and more. Host committee member and Graywolf poet Mark Wunderlich will serve as emcee.

Your tickets and sponsorships support Graywolf's mission to publish risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. Show your support for the Press during this momentous anniversary year! You'll have a chance to meet dozens of Graywolf writers and editors during the evening's festivities. 

All attendees will receive a limited-edition hardcover copy of Raised by Wolves: Fifty Poets on Fifty Poems and other literary swag. 

Individual tickets are $500 ($300 of which is tax-deductible). Sponsorships start at $1,200 and up. 

PLEASE NOTE: The event is full, but please join the waitlist if you are interested in attending, and we will contact you if space becomes available. If you have any questions or inquires about the waitlist, please contact Alana Keiser at keiser@graywolfpress.org.

If you need to reach a staff member the day of the event, please call Rachel Fulkerson at 651-788-8471. 

Featured Authors

Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the National Book Award; and When My Brother Was an Aztec.

Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House; the story collection Her Body and Other Parties, a finalist for the National Book Award; and The Low, Low Woods.

Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine is the author of the celebrated trilogy of Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; Citizen, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award; and Just Us, finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri is the author of the poetry collections That Was Now, This Is Then; 3 Sections, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; The Long Meadow; and Wild Kingdom.

Danez Smith
Danez Smith is the author of the poetry collections Bluff (forthcoming August 2024); Homie, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Don’t Call Us Dead, finalist for the National Book Award.