2025 Graywolf Literary Salon
We’re thrilled to invite our community of readers, writers, and literary friends to gather once again for a memorable evening at our 2025 Literary Salon, taking place on Thursday, September 25 at Glass House in Minneapolis.
We are excited to welcome Chloé Caldwell (Trying) and Joshua Wheeler (The High Heaven) for a dynamic onstage conversation, moderated by our director and publisher Carmen Giménez. Local writer chaun webster will open the program with an exclusive glimpse into his debut nonfiction project, arriving from Graywolf in 2026.
The evening will feature a social reception with drinks and light bites before our literary program, with book sales and signing to follow.
Join us to raise funds for bold, risk-taking literature and celebrate award-winning authors whose words transform our culture.
Featured Authors
Chloé Caldwell is the author of Women, the memoir The Red Zone, and the essay collections I’ll Tell You in Person and Legs Get Led Astray. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, The Cut, Autostraddle, Longreads, and NYLON, and she offers writing support and retreats at scrappyliterary.com. Her new book, Trying, a stirring account of disenfranchised grief and queer reawakening, will be published by Graywolf in August 2025.
In his work, poet and graphic designer chaun webster contends with the spatial, temporal, and interpretive limitations of writing to represent blackness outside of regimes of death and dying. His work has appeared in numerous journals including Obsidian, The Academy of American Poets, The Rumpus, Angel City Review, Tilted House, and Social Text. He is the author of Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime and Wail Song: wading in the water at the end of the world. Both books received the Minnesota Book Award for poetry. His first work of nonfiction, Without Terminus, will be published by Graywolf in June 2026.
Joshua Wheeler is the author of the essay collection Acid West, which was named a best book of 2018 by Newsweek, The Paris Review, and O, The Oprah Magazine. He’s written for The New York Times, Alta, and Harper’s Magazine, and he teaches at Louisiana State University. His debut novel, The High Heaven, a multi-genre story tracing one woman’s quest for faith across the American West during the Space Age, will be published by Graywolf in October 2025.
Carmen Giménez is the director and publisher of Graywolf Press. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Be Recorder, a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has been awarded the Academy of American Poets Fellowship Prize and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and she served as the publisher of Noemi Press for twenty years.