The Water Tour

by Maud Lavin

Release date: Spring 2026

A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Maud Lavin has published in Reckon Review, Copihue Poetry, BRIDGE, Roi Fainéant, the Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Slate, and other venues. One of her books, CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE (Yale UP), was named a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include CLEAN NEW WORLD and PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, both MIT Press, and three anthologies. Her writing has appeared in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Dutch, Finnish, and Spanish as well as English. This month Cowboy Jamboree Press is publishing her chapbook SILENCES, OHIO, and, in May, From Beyond Press will publish her eco-novel MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS: A LAKE MICHIGAN TALE. She is a 4-H alumna and a Guggenheim Fellow.