Jennifer Givhan Books in Order

Givhan's poetry examines motherhood through dark fairy tales, Southwestern landscapes and Latin American art and folklore. The collection moves between tenderness, fear, bodily experience and survival, exploring the tensions surrounding women and their families.

These poems explore love, guilt, racial injustice and the vulnerability of mothers and women of color. Givhan draws on family experience and the desire for protection to consider how damaged relationships and communities might begin to heal.

A Latina girl's journey into womanhood becomes a poetic exploration of violence, desire, memory and motherhood. Shifting forms trace the lasting effects of trauma alongside a mother's determination to protect the next generation.

This poetry collection explores the uneasy bond between mothers and daughters, moving through family wounds, fear and survival. Desert imagery and darkly lyrical scenes examine the beauty and danger entwined in that inheritance.

Reimagining Snow-White and Rose-Red through physics and borderland experience, this poetry collection follows sisters Rosa and Nieve into a desert landscape. Their search for healing intersects with an imagined life of Einstein's daughter Lieserl.

Pregnant anthropologist Calliope awakens in a transformed New Mexico where most people have vanished. Traveling with other survivors through disasters and uncanny threats, she must reconcile scientific understanding with the ancestral traditions she once dismissed.

Bianca arrives at her brother's home caring for a doll as though it were her child. Moving between her past and a new relationship, the novel explores concealed trauma, family acceptance and the fragile boundaries of healing.

Givhan examines love between mothers and daughters alongside inherited patterns of patriarchal violence. Drawing on borderland experience, curanderisma and feminist brujería, the poems explore trauma, resistance and the possibility of healing across generations.

Artist Eva suffers blackouts and doubts her memories when her husband is arrested for a friend's murder. As suspicion turns toward her, an eerily similar childhood death resurfaces, threatening her family and her trust in herself.

A girl's disappearance revives Malamar's unresolved grief over her missing sister in a town near the Salton Sea. Haunted by visions, she and her daughters search for answers amid family secrets and a threatening local legend.

Renewed murders unsettle a New Mexico community where Fortuna has tried to outrun her family's violent legacy. When a body appears in her backyard, her path crosses a detective haunted by the women she could not save.