Abode Press Welcomes Four New Authors: 2025 Chapbook Winners

We are delighted to announce our chapbook winners from our 2025 contest. Out of nearly 250 chapbook submissions, we welcome four new authors to our press.

Cassie Holguin-Pettinato - Hybrid Chapbook Winner Sen time ntality - coming Spring 2027

Cassie Holguin-Pettinato is a Chicana multidisciplinary artist, published poet, and thereminist, from the U.S-Mexico border. She is the author of The Five Stages of Stuttering (FlowerSong Press, 2024), and The Lamb’s Tail (Bottlecap Press, 2022). She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2024, she was awarded the Poet and Author Fellowship at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and in 2025, she traveled to Galway, Ireland, as Artist-in-Residence at Watershed Studios

Jonathan Rowe - Poetry Chapbook Winner iKhaya-Home - coming Summer 2027

Jonathan Rowe is a poet and librarian raised between Boston, Massachusetts, USA (unceded land of the Massachusett people) and Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been published in Callaloo, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and elsewhere, and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Learn more about Jonathan’s work at jonathanrowewrites.com.

Rocio Anica - Prose Chapbook Winner Tiny Joy, Tiny Bane - coming Fall 2027

Rocio Anica received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Cornell University, where she garnered the Martin Sampson Teaching Award. She volunteers her writing to non-profit organizations and continues her work in education. She is at work on a satirical picaresque. Find her at rocioanica.com.

Keishla Rivera-López - Poetry Chapbook Winner Craving Home - coming Winter 2027

Keishla Rivera-López is a literary and cultural studies scholar, writer, and poet specializing in Latina/o and Caribbean literature, Latinx Studies, and Puerto Rican Studies with a focus on Latinidad, cultural production, archives, and memory. She received a PhD in American Studies at The Graduate School-Newark at Rutgers University where she was awarded the 2019-2020 Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship. Currently, Keishla is a visiting professor in the English Department at Haverford College. Keishla was born and raised in Newark, NJ to Puerto Rican migrants and reflects on what it means to be a child of diaspora in her scholarship and writing. In her free time she enjoys writing poetry, short-stories, plays and essays. Her writing has been published in Centro Journal, Label Me Latina/o Journal, Hispanofila Journal, Chiricu Journal, The Acentos Review, Decolonial Passage, The Newarker, and The Journal for Latina Feminist Criticism.

Congratulations to our newest authors! We are excited to welcome you all to the Press!