Deal Announcement: Deep Vellum & La Reunion Acquire Three New Titles from Texas-Based Authors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 

Deep Vellum and La Reunion are thrilled to announce the acquisition of three new books by Texas-based writers at the intersection of racial, social, and environmental justice in Texas and beyond. 

Dallas-based environmental activist David Marquis’s The River of Blessings, the final volume of his celebrated River Trilogy, is a mediation on water as a metaphor for social change and a call to create a more just and sustainable world for all. The River of Blessings will be published as a standalone volume in Fall 2026 by La Reunion, and it will appear with The River Always Wins and The River of Goodness—the other two volumes of the Trilogy—in a single edition in Winter 2028.

Attorney Mark Melton’s Injustice of the Peace is a first-hand account of the author’s work representing thousands of tenants pro bono as they faced eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic. The founder of Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center gives readers an informed and unblinking look at the realities of poverty and housing insecurity in America, and explains how the legal system fails its people. Injustice of the Peace will be published in March 2027 by La Reunion.

Inaugural Dallas Poet Laureate Joaquín Zihuatanejo’s Immigrant is a trilingual poetry collection, initially composed in English by Zihuatanejo and translated into both Spanish and Nahuatl by David Bowles. Across verses reflecting upon inherited memory and lineage, Zihuatanejo documents the triumphs and traumas of immigrant life, from border crossings to detainments to acts of resistance. Immigrant will be published in February 2027 by Deep Vellum.

Deep Vellum founder and publisher Will Evans comments on this recent slew of acquisitions: “We are a Texas-based press, and we’re proud to publish great Texas writers. David Marquis, Mark Melton, and Joaquín Zihuatanejo are all committed to tackling issues faced by Texans, and to placing them in a larger context. I should also note that David and Mark’s books are coming out on the La Reunion imprint, which we founded to bring the voices, visions, and experience of Texas into the national and global conversation. We believe that Texan problems are American problems, and Texas literature is world literature.”