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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're thrilled that RAISED BY FERNS by Maya Jewell Zeller, one of over 300 books nominated for a 2027 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, has been chosen as one of the 12 titles on the Shortlist! PNBA Staff and the book awards committee unveiled the list today at the tradeshow.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Thanks to those who've reached out about RAISED BY FERNS author Maya Jewell Zeller's safety. She lives in an area endangered by the Spokane Complex fires; they were evacuated on Sat. under imminent threat and taken in by poet Laura Read. So far their home is intact, unlike those of so many others.

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We're excited to welcome author @rickirobin.bsky.social back to McCarthy to share GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES. If you're in the area, we hope to see you at this event with Erica, poet Michelle Latvala (BETWEEN LATITUDES, Green Writers Press), and @pataky.bsky.social (OVERWINTER, U Alaska Press)!

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 26/06/2026

"About a decade ago, the world looked different—possible. Now, I know we are irreversibly barreling into the unknown and that safety is an illusion." @civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews Maya Jewell Zeller about Raised by Ferns (@porphyrypress.bsky.social). 🌿 buff.ly/01i2vc8

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Lovely review of my pressmate Maya Jewell Zeller's book, by Nancy Lord: “Raised by Ferns” is a welcome addition both to thought about lower-income rural life and to the expansion of what we may consider as essay collections and memoir." www.adn.com/arts/books/2...

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Book review: A memoir in essays interrogates the forces that shape identity

“Raised by Ferns” is a welcome addition both to thought about lower-income rural life and to the expansion of what we may consider as essay collections and memoir.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thrilled that @katiecampbell.bsky.social, curator of the KUOW Public Radio Book Club, selected RAISED BY FERNS as a Book Talk selection for August. Congrats to author Maya Jewell Zeller. Register via link below to attend live in person, and stay tuned for the recording to listen afterward.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Happy One Month birthday to Maya Jewell Zeller's RAISED BY FERNS!

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Maya Jewell Zeller's book tour continues, starting with an appearance *tonight* at Fact & Fiction in Missoula with University of Montana MFA alum, the novelist Sharma Shields! Not to be missed by those in the area. 7 PM.

Flyer advertising the first stop in the Montana leg of Maya Jewell Zeller's book tour, an appearance at Fact & Fiction in Missoula with University of Montana MFA alum, the novelist Sharma Shields. 3-16-2026 at 7 PM

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

So many wonderful contributor books launching this week and last! Congratulations to Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Matthew Pitt, Maya Jewell Zeller, and @equitation.bsky.social on their newly released titles. @cmupress.bsky.social @porphyrypress.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social

CR book release graphic with the cover of Anna Lena Phillips Bell's "Might Could": a round terrarium full of ferns with a green Fenton custard glass base photographed against a white background.

CR book release graphic with the cover of Matthew Pitt's "Tear Here": an open and squirting packet of ketchup on a white background. The title has been written out in ketchup.

CR book release graphic with the cover of Maya Jewell Zeller's "Raised by Ferns": the title in block letters receding into a background of fern leaves.

CR book release graphic with the cover of Lesley Jenike's "City of Toys": the title in block letters on a teal background, surrounded by various naked plastic baby dolls in bright colors.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Thrilled about this starred review from Foreword Reviews! "Raised by Ferns is an ingenious memoir-in-essays that recalls a lifetime of determination." Pub date is just days away... March 3rd! Congrats to author Maya Jewell Zeller! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rais...

Starred Review, Foreword Reviews, RAISED BY FERNS by Maya Jewell Zeller (Porphyry Press 2026). Screenshot

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

See you in Baltimore for #AWP26? Incoming with @rickirobin.bsky.social/Ghosts of Distant Trees and Maya Jewell Zeller, whose Raised by Ferns launches March 3! Find us at Booth 1254.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

What's not to love? One week from today will be Valentine's Day, when author @rickirobin.bsky.social will sign GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES at Fireside Books Alaska in Palmer from 1 to 4. Go say hi! Maybe if you're lucky she'll dot the letter i in her name with a little ♥.

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Jason Prokowiew @jasonprokowiew.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Looking forward to reading during @awpwriter.org with my pressmates Reuben Gelley Neuman and Mai-Linh Hong and authors from EastOver and @porphyrypress.bsky.social. #debut2026 #AWP #memoir

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Love this profile of my publisher, @porphyrypress.bsky.social! "...piecing it together, getting by in the woods"

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!

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Just in time for the holidays, here are ADN reviewers’ favorite books of 2025

Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir and multiple books that interrogate the changing nature of the North.

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I guess it’s almost time for my annual “drive to Anchorage in an ice storm hellscape” trip, and this time I’ll be signing books at Title Wave on Saturday with my @porphyrypress.bsky.social pressmate John Messick. Come see us if you can? Send road reports? 😬

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Don't miss @rickirobin.bsky.social, author of GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, tomorrow at the Tri-Valley Library in Healy, Alaska if you're in the area.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

David James's insightful and positive book review of Erica Watson's GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES appears in both the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Daily News today. It's gratifying to see such a careful and astute take on this book.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Spokane, WA sidewalk statements of fact.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Loving these counter display and authors market views today in Fairbanks at Solstice Books! #JohnMessick @rickirobin.bsky.social #KrisFarmen #RosemaryMcGuire

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Got up to pee around 1:30 and caught this out the window. I guess this is an aurora account now.

Silhouetted spruce trees against a sky dancing with green auroras, a bit over-saturated

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

i couldn't help myself, it was such a beautiful title and description

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

CLMP (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) included GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES by Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social in their roundup of new November books from small presses! · www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

While this is getting traction: today is my book’s pub date! The cover matches these photos! Learn more bsky.app/profile/porp...

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Aww, this is fun to see! Strange pairing but I'll take it! 😜

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Happy pub day, @rickirobin.bsky.social! To celebrate the launch of our latest title, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, we're offering 20% off online orders of anything in our store now through Saturday night with the code LAUNCHWEEK.

A carton of Ghosts of Distant Trees books adorns the unstacked woodpile on its release date, Nov. 11, 2025.

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Jeremy Pataky @pataky.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Welp, first morning below zero this season.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Evening walk at the tour of the glacier, with views of Mt. Blackburn and the stairway icefall. • #AlaskaSky

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

today and worthwhile in a distant yonder city:

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave. · FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

There's no place like Alaska to write, and few residencies that uplift women writers from anywhere like @storyknife.bsky.social does. 1/2...

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our latest infrequent newsletter just dropped. Ye non-scriber-yets can view it online: bit.ly/3JKhYq9

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Caught this launch at the Spokane library before it’s time to return to AK… poet Laura Read read from her latest, THE SERIOUS WORLD (Boa Editions) and former WA State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken read from DRESSING IN THE DARK from Lynx House Press. @auntiesbooks.bsky.social sold lots of books!

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Thrilled to see an essay excerpted from Maya Jewell Zeller's forthcoming RAISED BY FERNS (March 2026, Porphyry Press) published by @cincinnatireview.bsky.social!

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Shannon Kelly Donahue @shannonkellydonahue.com · 28/10/2025

Digging into @rickirobin.bsky.social’s brand new essay collection, Ghosts of Distant Trees, on a train through the boreal forest to Hudson Bay. A gorgeous and thoughtful book. You should get it. #BookSky #AlaskaSky

The essay collection, Ghosts of Distant Trees, by Erica Watson, held up against the window of a train with black spruce forest in the background. The book cover features a beautiful image of a black spruce forest.

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Porphyry Press @porphyrypress.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Welp, guess this is our cue to post here for the first time! So fun, getting banned from Insta and FB two weeks before a publication date!

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