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See the cover for Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring by Jared Lemus

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See the cover for Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring by Jared Lemus

Jared Lemus’s debut novel, Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring, is a suspenseful, mythic story about survival, devotion, greed, and the inescapable pull of the past. In the remote Guatemalan town of Huecotenango, outcasts and wanderers have built lives alongside residents with extraordinary abilities, including a woman who can shapeshift into a jaguar, a healer who absorbs the ailments of others, and a young woman indebted to the god of the underworld. When two brothers arrive after a crash on the outskirts of town, their illicit work threatens to disrupt the community and sets its residents on a dangerous collision course.

Lemus is the author of Guatemalan Rhapsody, which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Story, and elsewhere. Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring will be published by Ecco on April 20, 2027.

Debutiful is honored to reveal Magic in the Land of Eternal Spring’s cover, designed by Vivian Rowe, along with a Q&A with Lemus about its creation.

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See the cover for Untranslatable by Lara Vergnaud

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See the cover for Untranslatable by Lara Vergnaud

Untranslatable, the debut memoir by Lara Vergnaud, traces the intersections of language, identity, and everyday life through the eyes of a literary translator. As Vergnaud brings novels across linguistic and cultural borders, she navigates her own experiences with illness, infertility, marriage, and the lingering sense of unbelonging shaped by a life between countries and languages. Weaving together personal reflection with the art of translation, the memoir explores what it means to remain invisible while giving voice to others, and how language can both reveal and obscure the self.

Untranslatable will be published on February 16, 2027, by Catapult and is available for preorder now.

Lara Vergnaud is a writer and literary translator specializing in North African literature. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Words Without Borders, and she has translated more than a dozen novels, including The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, which was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Born in Tunisia, raised in the United States, she now lives in southern France.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Untranslatable, designed by Victoria Maxfield with art direction from Nicole Caputo, along with a Q&A with Vergnaud about its creation.

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See the cover for Villains by Samantha Neugebauer

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See the cover for Villains by Samantha Neugebauer

Villains, the debut short story collection by Samantha Neugebauer, follows characters searching for purpose, enchantment, and connection across the United States and around the world. Spanning thirteen stories, the collection explores the tensions of self-mythology, social hypocrisy, and shame—often through mother-daughter relationships—as its characters struggle to distinguish what is lasting from what is fleeting, and what is truly meaningful from what has simply become familiar.

Villains will be published on January 26, 2027, by Washington Writers’ Publishing House and is available for preorder now.

Samantha Neugebauer is a lecturer at NYU Washington, DC, and a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. She holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins, an M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from NYU. Originally from Philadelphia, she spent nearly a decade working abroad and now lives in Washington, DC.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Villains, designed by Dave Ring, along with a Q&A with Neugebauer about its creation.

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See the cover for Don’t Cure Me by Catherine Foulkrod

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See the cover for Don’t Cure Me by Catherine Foulkrod

Don’t Cure Me, the debut novel by Catherine Foulkrod, follows a young woman navigating a world where illness determines every aspect of life, from social status to where people are allowed to live. As doctors race toward a medical breakthrough and society reduces human worth to blood-test numbers, a group of outsiders begins to challenge the very foundations of the system. Inspired by the history of the autoimmune disorder thrombocytopenia, the novel examines illness, surveillance, gender, and the violence of measuring human value.

Don’t Cure Me will be published on January 26, 2027 by McSweeney’s and is available for preorder now.

Catherine Foulkrod is a writer based in Naples, Italy. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Believer, New York Tyrant, Unsaid, Bookforum, Forever Magazine, El Malpensante, and exhibition catalogs for Thomas Dane Gallery and Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin. She is also the co-founder and director of The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature of the Arts.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Don’t Cure Me, designed by Daniele Catellano, along with a Q&A with Foulkrod about its creation.

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See the cover for The Flowers Along the Way by Claudia Castro Luna

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Claudia Castro Luna, the former Washington State Poet Laureate, and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet, is publishing her debut memoir, The Flowers Along the Way (Northwestern University Press) on September 15, 2026.

The memoir follows the poet as she reckons with the lasting effects of war, displacement, and inherited trauma after surviving a shooting in Oakland decades after fleeing civil war in El Salvador. Moving between personal memory and family history, it is a powerful exploration of PTSD, resilience, motherhood, and the long journey toward healing and belonging.

The Flowers Along the Way is available for preorder now and Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, designed by José Cándido Pineda, along with a Q&A with Luna about its creation.

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See the cover for Blue Selvage by Preeti Parikh

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Blue Selvage, the debut poetry collection by Preeti Parikh, weaves lyric, essayistic, and documentary modes into an exploration of skin, cloth, color, and the body as living archives marked by gendered, racialized, and colonial histories. Moving across shifting homelands, languages, and forms, the collection examines memory, inheritance, and reclamation, asking how the body carries what culture attempts to erase and how language can become a means of re-stitching fractured identities.

Blue Selvage will be published on November 1, 2026, by Tupelo Press and is available for preorder now.

Preeti Parikh is an Indian-born poet and essayist whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Cincinnati Review, The Margins, and Nonwhite and Woman. A Kundiman Fellow, National Poetry Series finalist, and recipient of awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, she holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop. She lives in Ohio with her family, and Blue Selvage is her debut poetry collection.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Blue Selvage, designed by Ann Aspell with art from Joanne Dugan, along with a Q&A with Parikh about its creation.

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See the cover for Mistranslation by Madeleine Moss

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Mistranslation, the debut novel by Madeleine Moss, follows twin sisters in upstate New York as childhood fractures into diverging identities shaped by family absence, cultural inheritance, and the arrival of a boy who unsettles both. Spanning years and continents, it traces how early misunderstandings calcify into lifelong tensions, asking what we inherit, what we misread, and what it costs to finally understand.

Mistranslation will be published on September 22, 2026, by University of Iowa Press and is available for preorder now.

Moss grew up in Ithaca, New York, and received a degree in French literature from Cornell University before obtaining her MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Mistranslation, designed by Kimberly Glyder, along with a Q&A with Moss about its creation.

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See the cover for Road Show by Nikki Ervice

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See the cover for Road Show by Nikki Ervice

Nikki Ervice is the winner of the VQR Emily Clark Balch Prize for fiction, whose work has also appeared in The VQR, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, and Passages North. Her debut novel, Roadshow, is set to be released on November 10, 2026, by Astra House.

Roadshow follows Annie, a burned-out New York performer who leaves behind her life of bartending and burlesque to drive cross-country to Alaska after receiving a letter from her mother, who abandoned her at birth. As her journey grows increasingly desperate and dangerous, Annie confronts questions of identity, inheritance, and survival while being pulled toward a final reckoning with her past. Blending grit and intimacy, the novel explores the cost of passion and the fragile ties between family, class, and selfhood.

Roadshow is available for pre-order now.

Debutiful is excited to reveal the cover, designed by Eli Mock, along with a Q&A with Ervice about how it was created.

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See the cover for Afterlight by Caleb Nolen

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See the cover for Afterlight by Caleb Nolen

Caleb Nolen is a poet whose work has appeared in 32 Poems, Bat City Review, Fence, The Georgia Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection, Afterlight, is set to debut on June 5, 2026, by University of Utah Press.

The collection, which won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, which was designed by Jessica Booth with art from Mike Ousley, alongside a Q&A with Nolen about how it was created.

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See the cover for We Are the Underlings by Doretta Lau

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See the cover for We Are the Underlings by Doretta Lau

Doretta Lau, known for her breakout short story collection debut, How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?, is back with her debut novel. Coming on October 14, 2026 from House of Anasi, We Are Underlings is about a grieving young marketing employee at a macabre theme park devoted to death and the afterlife who must help program her mysteriously deceased boss’s reanimated corpse to keep the park’s grand opening on schedule, forcing her to navigate corporate absurdity, workplace necromancy, and a string of suspicious deaths among her coworkers.

The book is available for pre-order now.

Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover designed by Alysia Shewchuk below, along with a Q&A with Lau about how it was created.

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