The University of Washington Press is excited to share our Spring 2026 catalog. Browse books that will be published in January and beyond—all available for pre-order on our website now.

The cover photograph by Thalía Gochez is from Chicano Camera Culture edited by Elizabeth Ferrer and distributed for Riverside Art Museum. Based on a major exhibition at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (The Cheech), this generously illustrated volume is the first to survey the entire history of photography by Chicana/o/x artists based across the US, from 1966 to the present.

Part memoir, part dialogue with the past, Tacoma-based writer and public historian Tamiko Nimura’s highly anticipated memoir, A Place for What We Lose: A Daughter’s Return to Tule Lake illuminates the costs of Japanese American incarceration while honoring the persistence of family, memory, and story.

Science and nature writer Eric Wagner takes readers to remote islands in the North Pacific to track the lives of seabirds in Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, Shearwaters, and the View from Destruction Island. Weaving together natural history, science, and the myriad stories that humans tell about their environments, the book shows how these curious marine species have become an unlikely but vitally important indicator for the health of oceans amid climate change.

Other books on the environment include Sara B. Pritchard’s Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution, the newest in our long-standing Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series. Pritchard reframes the familiar story of modern light and light pollution as a history of changing nights. Undying Fire: A Fire History of Europe is an incisive new volume from preeminent fire expert Stephen J. Pyne. A substantial update to his classic Vestal Fire, Undying Fire tracks millennia of human-made fire to illuminate Europe’s past and its environmental futures.

First published in 2014, Lunch at the Shop: The Art and Practice of the Midday Meal will be familiar to many readers, if not by name then by its cover, inspired by author and shopkeeper Peter Miller’s eponymous and now-legendary architecture and design bookstore in Seattle. We are delighted to bring this classic book back in print, an invitation to participate in the joy of sharing a simple meal. Of note for Seattleites and visitors, Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal: A History and Guide is both a primer on the city’s past and a companion for exploring part of its present-day waterfront, written by two well-known local writers and historians, David B. Williams and Jennifer Ott.

Available now, Yéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven: Tlingit Raven Stories, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Will Geiger and Jeff Leer, brings the wisdom and skill of master storytellers to new generations. Raven is a legendary cultural hero, world-maker, and trickster figure among the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska, and here his adventures appear for the first time in the original language, accompanied by facing English translations and detailed annotation.

The second release in the Abolition: Emancipation from the Carceral series, Carceral Care: Anti-Blackness and Abolition Medicine in the United States by Maisam Alomar takes an unflinching look at how medical care became a rationale for criminalization and containment. In Good Sediment: Black Ecologies and the Politics of Restoration in Coastal Louisiana, Monica Patrice Barra unsettles the assumption that restoration is inherently benevolent, and Keith K. Miyake uncovers how US environmental policy enforces racial oppression in the bold and timely The Racial Environmental State: Contested Spaces of Resistance.

In women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Braving All Borders: TransLatina Testimonios and Decolonial Defiance by Karla M. Padrón is a powerful, deeply researched account of how transgender Latina immigrants confront the overlapping borders that shape their lives. In Kurdish Women’s Transnational Resistance: Revolutionary Politics in Everyday Life, Nisa Göksel reveals how Kurdish women mobilize political resistance within and beyond the boundaries of nation-state politics. Both books will be published through our Decolonizing Feminisms series.

New in our Critical Filipinx Studies series, We Are Revolution: Transnational Filipino American Activism for Liberation by Joy Sales presents a sweeping account of how diasporic Filipino activists transformed exile into revolution and how their unfinished fight continues to resonate across generations.

Explore all these titles and more in the UW Press Spring 2026 catalog.