Timothy
Ryan Day

In this beautiful work of narrative scholarship, Ryan Day succeeds in probing both the intimate and planetary dimensions of green Shakespeare studies and environmental humanities theory. An impressively learned and engaging book, demonstrating the unexpected relevance of Shakespeare to contemporary environmental writing.

Scott SlovicUniversity of Idaho

This elegant and accomplished exercise in interwoven narrative history draws fascinating parallels between literature and biology — from the butterflies of Barbara Kingsolver to tumors in The Tempest — and delivers, with surprising prescience, an entirely new way of thinking about the present.

Rachel CorbettNew York

Sprawling in voice, locale, and era, Big Sky tackles the big questions, where ideology meets biology meets art meets metaphysics. All converging in history in Timothy Ryan Day's timely debut novel, with characters shaped by a century-old, true-life tragedy that may amount to the Rosetta Stone of America.

Duke HaneyAuthor

Day's work is expansive — traversing the globe and scaling life from synaptic links and digital binaries to the creative forces of kinship and love. Everything is connected by a silken web of causality and metaphor. Like the yeast at its centre, Leaven calls its readers, again and again, to rise.

Katie SheehanAuthor of Poplar

Leaven understands what experimental poetry has always known — form is argument. Strange fiction that earns its strangeness, alive to the materiality of thought and the ways biology and code rhyme with one another. These are serious and necessary words.

Biswamit DwibedyAuthor of Hubble Gardner