above/ground press authors Sarah Mangold and Laura Walker are Saturnalia Books Award Winners!

Congratulations to above/ground press authors Sarah Mangold and Laura Walker, who were announced as two of three 2025 Book Prize winners over at Saturnalia Books! Sarah Mangold's manuscript, In the Service of the Mysteries, was chosen for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize by guest judge Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Laura Walker's manuscript red was chosen by Saturnalia Books' staff as one of two Alma Book Awards (alongside the manuscript Agape by Patrick Kindig; it would be impolite to not mention him as well). You can see their announcement for such, as well as further information on their book prizes, here.

As you most likely already know, Sarah Mangold is the author of five chapbooks with above/ground press, including two editions of Cupcake Royale (2012; second edition, 2018), as well as Parlor (2012), A Copyist, an Astronomer, and a Calendar Expert (2016) and BIRDS I RECALL (2018). She also had a poem as part of the 25th anniversary above/ground press broadside project, and a festschrift on her work, Report from the Mangold Society, Vol 1. No. 1, appeared through above/ground press in 2022. You can find her 2015 Touch the Donkey interview here. Laura Walker, on her part, is the author of the above/ground press title, genesis (2023). They have both published a bunch of other things you should get your hands on, also, so you should probably get caught up before their new books land. Congrats to all three! I am very excited to see these books appear.