New-Release Roundup
February 2026
Recent book releases from Sun authors include a novelist’s chronicle of her mysterious illness, a fantasy set in the mountains of Appalachia, and a debut poetry collection. Pick one up today and support these wonderful writers.—Ed.
Dizzy: A Memoir
Rachel Weaver’s essay “Dizzy” originally appeared in The Sun almost nine years ago, in July 2017. Since then, Weaver has charted her experience of chronic illness in a full-length memoir.
From the publisher: “Days before starting her MFA grad program, Rachel Weaver woke up dizzy and unable to function – a condition that persisted daily for fourteen years and stumped over thirty doctors before she received a diagnosis. What begins as a mysterious symptom quickly transforms into a lengthy odyssey through a broken medical system, where she encounters dismissive doctors, misdiagnoses, and treatments that often worsen her condition.”
Strange Animals
Jarod K. Anderson’s poem “Tending the Wound” appeared in our May 2025 issue. His debut novel is titled Strange Animals.
From the publisher: “Green trips on the curb, falls flat into the street, and sees the city bus speeding toward him. And then . . . blink. He’s back on the curb, miraculously still alive. A five-foot-tall crow watches him from atop a nearby sign, somehow unseen by the rushing crowd of morning commuters.
Desperate for answers and beset by more visions of impossible creatures, Green finds his way to a remote campsite in the Appalachian Mountains, where he meets a centuries-old teacher and begins an apprenticeship unlike anything he could imagine.”
How We Do Things Here
Matt Cashion’s essay “Lost and Found” appeared in our January 2025 issue. How We Do Things Here is his latest collection of short fiction.
From the publisher: “Inside absurd and poignant moments that provoke much laughter and pain, Matt Cashion’s cast of slow-learners reveals how we try (and fail) and retry to forge meaningful connections in the troubled spaces we’re so desperate to share.”
Worth Burning
Mickie Kennedy’s poem “Guarding the Coop” appeared in our December 2024 issue. His debut collection of poetry is out now from Black Lawrence Press.
From the publisher: “An unflinching portrait of survival, Worth Burning traces a boy’s journey from a turbulent Southern childhood—marked by parental abuse, death, and hidden queerness—through the AIDS crisis, a marriage of convenience, and finally, towards a rugged self-acceptance haunted by the past.”
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