University of Alberta Press

“In Mehdi M. Kashani’s riveting short story collection, A TEHRAN SO QUIET, Iranian immigrants navigate difficult and confusing relationships.
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A night of raunchy gossip turns into one of catharsis.
A husband navigates a shattering dinner with his equanimous father-in-law.
A factory owner says goodbye to his sugar baby before leaving Tehran to join his estranged wife and children in Vancouver.
These and other stories of Iranians drawn to Canada by the chance for work, education, love, or escape paint brief, searing portraits of lost opportunities and imperfect relationships.

Many of the characters struggle to fulfill or defy cultural and family expectations—or to decide which path they want to take.

Ranging from somber character studies to tragicomic farces, these stories highlight the pain of being so far away from familiar people and places.

No matter how earth-shattering an event may feel on an individual level, the world continues to move forward, and each character has to find a way to move with it. This leads to endings full of compromises that, rather than taking the characters where they wish to go, reveal necessary truths that will either be brought into the light or buried forever.”

Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews

It's been a great summer for talks about FRANK FARLEY AND THE BIRDS OF ALBERTA.

Co-author Glen Hvenegaard has been spotted at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park and Camrose Public Library. He was also invited to speak to the Buffalo Lake Naturalists and the Camrose Wildlife Stewardship Society.

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By analyzing a range of community organizing strategies and specific instances of police action, RESISTING POLICE IN Q***R SPACES reveals the ways in which Two-Spirit, q***r, and trans communities have navigated and challenged attempts to marginalize their presence in public life.

Alexa DeGagné also thoughtfully explores the internal complexities and at times conflicting perspectives within these diverse communities, particularly concerning interactions with law enforcement.

This insightful work is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the ongoing struggles for social justice, the dynamics of Two-Spirit, q***r and trans activism, and the need for police abolition.

Resisting Police in Q***r Spaces - University of Alberta Press Resisting Police in Q***r Spaces offers a compelling account of the determined and resilient efforts of Two-Spirit, q***r, and trans communities to carve out...

August 2026 marks the 150th anniversary of the first signing of Treaty 6.

When created with care, respect, collaboration, and authorization, books can be powerful tools in the work of upholding treaty commitments. They can be tools for education, for language preservation, for seeking wellness, and for cultural memory. They can be tools for speaking back to histories and presents that attempt to erase Indigenous languages, cultures, communities, and landscapes. And they can be tools for imagining and creating a vibrant and expansive present and future for First Nations, and for all Treaty people.

University of Alberta Press is proud to publish books like these, that speak directly to the peoples and contexts of Treaty 6.

To honour the 150th anniversary of Treaty 6, why not pick one up and reflect on our shared responsibilities in this territory we call home?

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Alice Major's CKUA interview airs around 12:30 today on Kate Stevens show. They are talking about Alice's new book, TRIANGULARITY: Essays on Poetry, Science, and Spirit.
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In SUBLUNARY, Lisa Richter explores what it’s like to live “under the moon” in a world that is simultaneously a heartbreak and a total wonder. Sweetmeats and ocelots rain from the sky. Pets are shadow puppets. A kitten impersonates a teacup. A grieving daughter travels back in time to be at her father’s side in the final hours of his life. Newlyweds soar over the rooftops of west-end Toronto, passing a violin-playing goat along the way.

From Atlantis to Mount Olympus to Christie Pits, these poems interweave moments of absurdity and awe, creating a nuanced portrait of what “a reckless intimacy with the world” might look like—for better or worse.

SUBLUNARY is a book of elegy, play, and rupture that advocates for an ethics of care, solidarity, and compassion for our perfectly imperfect selves and each other: a mode of survival that is full-throated and, at times, even joyous.

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For author Alexa DeGagné, the journey to writing RESISTING POLICE IN Q***R SPACES is deeply intertwined with both personal history and systemic critique.
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"Sublunary is an underworld Babylon and masterwork of controlled fire—‘The ultimate immersive experience!’—that turns the contestable purpose of poetry, and aboutness of a poem, on its head. In this resplendent collection, poems 'about' history, aesthetics, ancestry, aging, love, landscape, and dreams are revealed to be decoys for the great subjects, death and time. Richter’s shapeshifting virtuosity—a 'double exposure' of our lost worlds and living griefs—and her mystic's quest for a body and form to praise the real are the apotheosis of memory's ecstatic song." Virginia Konchan, author of Requiem
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Our latest blog post is a wrap up of the spring conference season: a busy and productive time of learning and connection.
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