Our Spring 2026 Lineup

Wildhouse is gearing up for a busy Spring season with four new books on the way, starting May 2. This Spring calls on our Poetry and Nonfiction imprints to bring transformational stories and intentionally-strung poems to you, our readers.

First out of the gate this spring is Italics by Alison Davis. A collection of poems that Rattle poetry editor Timothy Green called “a map to wonder,” Davis asks insurmountable questions of meaning, purpose, and mystery through moments of understated joy and heart-opening simplicity. Davis, a poet and educator based in Northern California, will be making appearances her region surrounding the May publication date.

Lila Glasoe-Francese follows up her successful debut memoir, The Situation: A Journey Thru Sisterhood with Life Amplified, a book that is parts memoir and self-help guide inspired by the challenging times after the death of her sister, Carolyn. Carolyn’s bold style and appetite for life lingered in the atmosphere long after she passed away, offering Lila the opportunity to ponder on the cryptic but touching messages that our loved ones often leave behind for us to decipher. The author lives in Ojai, California, and is planning to appear at Bart’s Books for the official launch.

The second memoir of our Spring lineup is Seed Corn Must Not Be Ground, which packs decades of trauma healing and recovery into roughly 50,000 words. Lamenting the namesake lithograph by artist Kathe Kollwitz, author Pat Browne aids her lifelong love of growing and cultivating to the title of her memoir. In this book, Pat shares vulnerable and unforgettable moments from a childhood of neglect and extreme rigidity that transitioned into a young adulthood of fear and distrust. After years of processing and tending to her love of language, Pat shares her story with the world in a memoir that Rev. John J. Thatamanil calls “a love song to a sacred world.”

Finally, Julie L. Moore closes out the season with Devil’s Backbone, an unflinchingly honest call-out of Christian nationalism and white supremacy in the United States. As a response to the upswing of attacks on higher education in the United States, Moore reckons with whiteness and eyes the meandering road towards unity, healing, and redemption in this poetry collection that award-winning poet Angela Jackson-Brown describes as “imagining connection not as redemption, but as an act of courage rooted in presence, responsibility, and care.” 

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