After 12 years of freelance publicity work, Nectar Literary is winding down in December 2024. We had a great run representing 100s of books and dozens of nonprofit literary organizations.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alyson Sinclair, you can reach her here. Since 2021, she is also the Publisher of the indie lit magazine, The Rumpus. She lives in Asheville, NC

Mandy Medley is a worker/owner of the beautiful indie bookstore Pilsen Community Books in Chicago, IL. You can find here many days of the week building community through events and organizing.

Sarah Cassavant is an artist in St. Paul, MN. You can find her goods inspired by quilt making and other fiber arts at her business Stone Fruit Creative.

EVENTS/FESTIVALS/NONPROFITS:

American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award

Academy of American Poets / Poets.org (publicity). New York, NY.

Coffee House Press (communications and fundraising consultant). Minneapolis, MN.

LAMBDA Literary Awards publicity for awards ceremony held in June 2019. New York, NY.

Memphis Literary Arts Festival publicity for inaugural Festival in June 2018. Memphis, TN.

Northern Spark Festival pr & marketing director 2014 & 2015. Minneapolis, MN.

O, Miami publicist 2011-2016. Miami, FL.

Pop-Up Magazine: Beck’s Song Reader Issue. San Francisco, CA.

Portland Book Festival (formerly Wordstock) presented by Literary Arts: annually November 2015-present (publicist). Portland, OR.

ScholarMatch (communications/fundraising consultant for fundraising campaign). San Francisco, CA.

Shared Worlds (communications consultant). Spartanburg, SC.

Springboard for the Arts (fundraising and grant consultant for Minnesota artists and nonprofit arts + culture organizations). St. Paul, MN.

Voice of Witness (publicity and communications consultant). San Francisco, CA.

BOOKS:

Arsenal Pulp Press (various titles including):

• Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke

• An Evening with Birdy O’Day by Greg Kearney

• When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke, Recovery, and Transformation by Tara Sidhoo Fraser

• Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante

• A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett (short stories)

• The Future Is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nonfiction)

• Holden After and Before by Tara McGuire (memoir)

• Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel (stories)

• Between a Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis ed. by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (essays)

• We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning (debut short story collection)

• Vanishing Monuments by John Elizabeth Stintzi (novel)

• Sketchtasy by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (novel)

The Body Alone by Nina Lohman (memoir / University of Iowa Press)

Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition by Silky Shah (nonfiction / Haymarket Books)

The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found by Sylvia Brownrigg (nonfiction/memoir / Counterpoint Press)

Alt-Nature by Saretta Morgan (poetry / Coffee House Press)

American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion edited by Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop (essay anthology / Coffee House Press)

Excuse Me As I Kiss the Sky by Rudy Francisco (poetry / Button Poetry)

Love and Money, Sex and Death by McKenzie Wark (memoir/nonfiction / Verso)

Good Women by Halle Hill (stories / Hub City Press)

The Book of Disbelieving by David Lawrence Morse (stories / Sarabande Books)

Big Shadow by Marta Balcewicz (fiction / Book*hug Press)

Journal of a Black Queer Nurse by Britney Daniels (memoir / Common Notions)

The Sorrow of Others by Ada Zhang (stories / A Public Space)

What Things Cost edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul (poetry anthology / University of Press of Kentucky)

Users by Colin Winnette (novel / Soft Skull Press)

Hunger Heart by Karen Fastrup, translated from Danish by Marina Allemano (autofiction / Book*hug Press)

Dream Rooms by River Halen (memoir / Book*hug Press)

The River You Touch by Chris Dombrowski (nonfiction / Milkweed Editions)

Sinkhole by Juliet Patterson (nonfiction / Milkweed Editions)

Nobody Is Protected by Reece Jones (nonfiction / Counterpoint Press)

The Crocodile Bride by Ashleigh Bell Pedersen (novel / Hub City Press)

Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin, translated by Anton Hur (novel / Feminist Press)

Against Heaven by Kemi Alabi (poetry / Graywolf Press)

When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà, translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (novel / Graywolf Press)

Alice James Books (various poetry titles from Fall 2018-Winter 2024):

• Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali

• Orders of Service by Willie Lee Kinard III

• The Dead Peasant’s Handbook by Brian Turner

• The Goodbye World Poem by Brian Turner

• The Wild Delight of Wild Things by Brian Turner

• I am the Most Dangerous Thing by Candace Williams

• Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna

• Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris

• Feast by Ina Cariño

• Decade of the Brain by Janine Joseph

• American Treasure by Jill McDonough

• We Borrowed Gentleness by J. Estanislao Lopez

• Brother Sleep by Aldo Amparan

• Sugar Work by Katie Marya

• Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory by Jeffrey Thomson

• Constellation Route by Matthew Olzmann

• How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong

• Brocken Spectre by Jacques Rancourt

• No Ruined Stone by Shara McCallum

• Inheritance by Taylor Johnson

• Arrow by Sumita Chakraborty

• Hot with the Bad Things by Lucia LoTempio

• Witch by Philip Matthews

• Neck of the Woods by Amy Woolard

• Little Envelope of Earth Conditions by Cori A. Winrock

• Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman

• Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

• Soft Science by Franny Choi

• Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

Two Lines Press (various literature in translation titles from Fall 2019-Fall 2022):

• Days Come and Go by Hemley Boum, translated from French by Nchanji Njamnsi

• Visible: Text + Image edited by Sarah Coolidge (Calico Series)

• Linea Nigra by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney

• At the Edge of the Woods by Masatsugo Ono, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter

• This Is Us Losing Count: Eight Russian Poets ed. by Sarah Coolidge

• The Interim by Wolfgang Hilbig, translated from German by Isabel Fargo Cole

• Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

• Cuíer edited by Sarah Coolidge (poetry + prose + nonfiction / Calico series)

• Kaya Days by Carl de Souza, translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

• Slipping by Mohammed Kheir, translated from Arabic by Robin Moger

• Nancy by Bruno Lloret, translated from Spanish by Ellen Jones

• Elemental (prose/nonficiton / Calico Series)

• Rabbit Island by Elvira Navarro, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

• Harmada by João Gilberto Noll, translated by Edgar Garbelotto

• That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump

• Home: New Arabic Poems by various authors and translators (Calico Series)

• On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina Macsweeney

• Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong, translated by Natascha Bruce

• That We May Live by various authors and translators (Calico Series)

• They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears by Johannes Anyuru, translated by Saskia Vogel

• This Tilting World by Collette Fellous, translated by Sophie Lewis

Dark Tourist by Hasanthika Sirisena (essays / Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press)

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson (poetry / Button Poetry)

Indigo by Padget Powell (nonfiction / Catapult)

God of Mercy by Okezie Nwoka / debut novel / Astra House)

Pity the Beast by Robin McLean (novel / And Other Stories)

The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life by Kyle Beachy (nonfiction / Grand Central)

July by Kathleen Ossip (poetry / Sarabande Books)

The Portrait of a Mirror by A. Natasha Joukovsky (novel / Overlook Press)

The Groundhog Forever by Henry Hoke (debut novel / WTAW Press)

The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti (debut novel / Hub City Press)

Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change by Anjali Enjeti (debut nonfiction/literary essays / University of Georgia Press)

Begin by Telling by Meg Remy (nonfiction / Book*hug Press)

Spilt Milk by Courtney Zoffness (debut nonfiction / essay collection / McSweeney’s)

Oh You Robot Saints! by Rebecca Morgan Frank (poetry / Carnegie Mellon University Press)

University of Pittsburgh Press / Pitt Poetry Series:

• Earnest, Earnest? by Eleanor Boudreau (poetry)

• The Book of Daniel by Aaron Smith (poetry)

Getting to Center by Marlee Grace (nonfiction / HarperCollins)

Each of Us Killers by Jenny Bhatt (stories / 7.13 Books)

Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante (Noemi Press)

The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels (novel / Hub City Press)

Heaven by Emerson Whitney (nonfiction / McSweeney’s)

The Galleons by Rick Barot (poetry / Milkweed Editions)

Last of Her Name by Mimi Lok (short story debut / Kaya Press)

This is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession by Cameron Dezen Hammon (memoir / Lookout)

Crossfire by Staceyann Chin (poetry / Haymarket Books)

Book*hug Press (various titles including):

• Fanny and the Mystery in the Grieving Forest by Rune Christiansen, translated by Kari Dickson (novel)

• The Nothing That Is by Johanna Skibsrud (essays)

• Symphony No. 3 by Chris Eaton (novel)

When Death Takes Something From You Give it Back: Carl’s Book by Naja Marie Aidt (literary memoir / Coffee House Press)

Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin (narrative nonfiction / Transit Books)

Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann (essay / Coffee House Press)

Motion Studies by Jena Osman (poetry / Ugly Duckling Presse )

China Dream by Ma Jian, translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew (novel / Counterpoint Press )

And Other Stories (various prose titles including):

• Something Like Breathing by Angela Readman (fiction)

• People in the Room, by Norah Lange and translated from Spanish by Charlotte Whittle (fiction)

• Brother in Ice, by Alicia Kopf and translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (hybrid fiction)

• Worlds from the Word's End by Joanna Walsh (fiction)

Song Reader sheet music by Beck (McSweeney’s)

Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell (graphic novel & memoir / Uncivilized Books)

Magic Hours by Tom Bissell (essays / McSweeney’s)

The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky (poetry / Brooklyn Arts Press) *Winner of the 2016 National Book Award

The Gift by Barbara Browning (fiction/ Emily Books and Coffee House Press)

Belly Up by Rita Bullwinkel (debut fiction / A Strange Object)

Dictionary Stories by Jez Burrows (fiction / Harper Perennial)

How Music Works by David Byrne (nonfiction / McSweeney’s) *NY Times best seller

I'll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell (essay collection / Emily Books & Coffee House Press)

Catapult's interim publicist Spring-Fall 2016: including Jane Alison's nonfiction novel Nine Island, Peter Orner's nonfiction collection Am I Alone Here (NBCC Award Finalist), and Amy Kurzweil's graphic memoir Flying Couch. 

Commune Editions: Red Epic by Joshua Clover, We Are Nothing and So Can You by Jasper Bernes, & That Winter the Wolf Came by Juliana Spahr (poetry)

A Hologram for the King a novel by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s) *National Book Award finalist **NY Times best seller

Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash (fiction/ Coffee House Press)

More Baths, Less Talking by Nick Hornby (essays / McSweeney’s)

Sleeping it Off in Rapid City *NBCC winner and The Hotel Oneira by August Kleinzahler (poetry / FSG)

War Horses by Yusef Komunyakaa (poetry / FSG)

Love, An Index by Rebecca Lindenberg (poetry / McSweeney’s)

The Narrow Door by Paul Lisicky (memoir / Graywolf Press) 

Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli (essay/ Coffee House Press)

Cities I've Never Lived In by Sara Majka (fiction /Graywolf Press & A Public Space)

Captive Audience by Lucas Mann (nonfiction / Vintage)

Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (poetry / Copper Canyon)

High Rise Stories edited by Audrey Petty (nonfiction from Voice of Witness /McSweeney’s)

Speak Low by Carl Phillips (poetry / FSG) *National Book Award finalist

Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed (poetry/ Coffee House Press) *National Book Award winner

Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen (culinary memoir / Clarkson Potter)

Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine (graphic short story collection / Drawn & Quarterly)

Dead Astronauts, Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, & Area X by Jeff VanderMeer (fiction trilogy / FSG) **NY Times best seller and Borne & The Strange Bird (fiction / MCD:FSG)

Vicky Swanky is a Beauty by Diane Williams (fiction / McSweeney’s)