Our Panhandle Creek Press family continues to grow! Please help us welcome five exciting new authors to Panhandle Creek Press!
Deborah Brown has published short fiction, humor, and journalism, and her play, Cleaning Up When Friends Visit was produced in a New York City new‑play festival during Covid. She holds a master’s degree in educational psychology from Marist University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women.
Look for Brown’s memoir, Illegitimate, to be released on September 7th, 2027.
Kurt Caswell is the author of five books of nonfiction, most recently, Iceland Summer: Travels Along the Ring Road (2024), illustrated by Julia Oldham. He has worked as a teacher in Hokkaido, Japan, on the Navajo Reservation, at schools in Arizona, California, and Wyoming, and in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Look for Caswell’s book of poetry, After Hiroshige, to be released on May 25th, 2027.
Misti Galloway is a writer from Los Angeles, California, whose work explores resilience, hope, and the stories we tell ourselves about what is possible. She writes across genres, including poetry, drama, children’s literature, and historical fiction. Impossible is her debut picture book.
Look for Galloway’s children’s picture book, Impossible, on April 27th, 2027.
HC Hsu, PhD, is author of Love is Sweeter: Stories (Lethe/Deerbrook) and Middle of the Night: Essays (Deerbrook), and translator of Steel Gate to Freedom: The Life of Liu Xiaobo (Rowman). Hsu’s debut novel chronicles the life of a family in four decades through birth and death, marriage and estrangement, friendship and betrayal, the institution of martial law and its inevitable lifting.
Look for Hsu’s literary novel, Taiwan, to be released on June 1st, 2027.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley , PhD, is a poet, memoirist, fiction writer, anti-war/human rights activist, and a war survivor, who immigrated with her family to the US during the 14 year Liberian civil war. She is the author of many books of poetry, including, Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems, When the Wanderers Come Home, The River is Rising, and Where the Road Turns.
Look for Wesley’s children’s picture book, In Monrovia, The River Visits The Sea, illustrated by Leslie Lumeh, to be released on November 10th, 2026.
We look forward to featuring each of these authors and their coming books in future posts! Until then, welcome aboard!