STILLHOUSE PRESS TO PUBLISH TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE, DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM KRISTINA TEN: AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW 

Contact: Taylor Schaefer 
Stillhouse Press Media & Marketing  
publicity@stillhousepress.org 

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

June 6, 2025 

 STILLHOUSE PRESS TO PUBLISH TELL ME YOURS, I’LL TELL YOU MINE, DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION FROM KRISTINA TEN: AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW 

 

FAIRFAX, VA (June 6, 2025) – Stillhouse Press presents the short story collection Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine from debut author Kristina Ten, to be released on October 7, 2025. 

 Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians, calls the collection “A joyous, incisive, inventive, and vital run of stories.” Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine gathers twelve short stories that, though varied in voice and theme, are united by their exploration of the darker undercurrents of childhood and play. Populated by living paper dolls, summer camp legends, and trivia nights gone wrong, the collection delves into memory, disobedience, alienation, and the eerie experience of inhabiting a body others seek to control. From a student who uncovers a sinister force in an English-learning CD-ROM to an empire clinging to hope through cootie catchers and soda-can tabs, each tale distorts a familiar game, revealing the unsettling consequences that follow. 

 According to Ten, this collection is for readers who “enjoy stories that stand alone like tasty morsels, but together make the perfect meal—especially those drawn to subtle horror and the nostalgia of childlore.” With haunting clarity and speculative flair, Kristina Ten crafts tales that, in the words of Kevin Brockmeier (The Brief History of the Dead), are “marvels,” each one offering new ways “to surprise and discomfort.” 

 Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is available now for preorder exclusively from Stillhouse Press:  

https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/tell-me-yours-ill-tell-you-mine  

 Kristina Ten’s stories appear in McSweeney's, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Nightmare, Lightspeed, Uncanny, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the McSweeney's Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest. She has been a finalist for both the Shirley Jackson and Locus Awards. A graduate of Clarion West and the University of Colorado Boulder's MFA program in fiction, she was also a 2024 Ragdale writer-in-residence. Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is her debut collection. 

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 STILLHOUSE PRESS is an independent book publisher based in Northern Virginia. We publish surprising, gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that can’t or doesn’t want to find a home in big publishing. We are drawn to the strange, the unconventional, the transcendent, the risky. By way of our relationship with George Mason University’s MFA, MA, BFA, and BA programs, we aim to provide educational opportunity through applied experience in the art of craft publishing – student staff are responsible for acquiring, producing, and marketing work from independent authors in the course of their professional education, allowing them to forge lasting professional relationships and step out with confidence into the greater literary community. 

Stillhouse Press to Publish LEAFSKIN, Debut Novel From Miranda Schmidt: Available for Preorder Now

Contact: Taylor Schaefer 
Stillhouse Press Media & Marketing  
publicity@stillhousepress.org 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

October 18, 2024 

STILLHOUSE PRESS TO PUBLISH LEAFSKIN, DEBUT NOVEL FROM MIRANDA SCHMIDT: AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW 

 

FAIRFAX, VA (October 18, 2024) – Stillhouse Press announces the publication of Leafskin, an intimate exploration of queer family-making and environmental upheaval from debut author Miranda Schmidt, to be released on March 25, 2025.  

Leafskin is a novel of liminal spaces for anyone who has found themselves searching for connection between binaries: life and art, prose and poetry, body and nature, reality and magic. As Callum Angus, author of A Natural History of Transition, says, “It's into these intricate webs of relation that Leafskin settles like love, always shifting with the light.” 

A poet and her husband have been trying to make a baby. But while undergoing fertility treatments amid a harrowing wildfire season, Jo reconsiders raising a child in a time of climate crisis. When her artist ex-girlfriend, who has always had an uncanny connection to nature, re-enters her life, Jo struggles to navigate the transformations in her relationships and realities.  

An exploration of queer parenthood, love, and identity, Leafskin embraces the uncanny entanglements that root through Jo's life and her work to, as Maya Sonenburg (Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters) says, “probe what it means to make something grow in this time of…destruction: a tree, a marriage, a poem, a painting, a friendship, a child.” Leafskin interrogates how we create and what we become in a time of environmental devastation. 

Leafskin is available now for preorder exclusively from Stillhouse Press: https://www.stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-store/leafskin

Miranda Schmidt’s (they/she) work circles the folkloric, the familial, queer magic, and the more-than-human world. Their writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, Orion, Electric Literature, Catapult, Phoebe, and more. They have received support from the Lambda Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and the Bread Loaf Environmental Conference and taught creative writing at the Portland Book Festival, the Loft, the University of Washington, and Portland Community College. They are a PhD candidate at Bath Spa University and received their MFA from the University of Washington. Originally from the Midwest, Miranda now lives in Portland, Oregon. Leafskin (Stillhouse Press) is Miranda’s debut novel.  

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STILLHOUSE PRESS is an independent book publisher based in Northern Virginia. We publish surprising, gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that can’t or doesn’t want to find a home in big publishing. We are drawn to the strange, the unconventional, the transcendent, the risky. We’re looking for work that pushes boundaries. 

By way of our relationship with George Mason University’s MFA, MA, BFA, and BA programs, our aim is to provide educational opportunity through applied experience in the art of craft publishing – student staff are responsible for acquiring, producing, and marketing work from independent authors in the course of their professional education, allowing them to forge lasting professional relationships and step out with confidence into the greater literary community. 

Title Story From Wendi Kaufman’s “HELEN ON EIGHTY-SIXTH STREET” To Be Featured on Symphony Space and NPR’s “Selected Shorts” on April 17, 2024

Stillhouse Press celebrates the performance of Wendi Kaufman’s classic short story “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street” on April 17 at New York City’s Symphony Space, where it will be read by Donna Lynn Champlin as part of the episode “Jane and Sarah’s Guide to Divorce and Happily Ever Afters” from “Selected Shorts.”

Nine and a half years ago, in August 2014, the story collection Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street was published as Stillhouse’s inaugural title—and though Wendi passed away later that year, we’re thrilled that her literary legacy lives on with this fresh new take on her moving and wickedly funny coming-of-age tale of family foibles and young heartache.

“Selected Shorts,” hosted by New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, is a book reading, live performance, podcast, and radio show all at once. Each performance takes place in the magnificent Symphony Space on Broadway, and features several short stories read by well-known actors.

This event will be performed in person and available to live-stream. Tickets can be purchased here. Each event is also broadcast at a later date over National Public Radio.

Debut Story Collection from Amy Stuber Forthcoming from Stillhouse Press, October 2024 - Now available for preorder!

FAIRFAX, VA—(February 2024)—Stillhouse Press is pleased to announce the October 2024 publication of Amy Stuber’s short story collection, Sad Grownups. 

In her powerful debut, Stuber, an acclaimed writer of short fiction, explores the search for joy in a dying world, where being an adult means performing narrow versions of acceptability on repeat. Equal parts sad, funny, and poignant, each story is a small roadmap for release from the strictures of American consumerism, gender roles, and the strain of living through climate crisis. 

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