Forthcoming in Summer 2026: FOURTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Deep Vellum acquires Erin Vincent’s Fourteen Ways of Looking

DALLAS, TX — Deep Vellum imprint A Strange Object has acquired North American English rights to Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent, from Priscilla Posada at Regal Hoffman & Associates. Pitched for readers of Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Fourteen Ways of Looking is a profound and playful work that draws on the Oulipo tradition to frame trauma, orphanhood, and identity. A searching and searing expression of grief’s transmutations, Fourteen Ways of Looking was born from the author’s loss of her parents at the age of fourteen. The memoir mines Vincent’s obsession with the number as it pursues fourteens across the fields of literature, music, science, and beyond. Studded with moments of surprise and intellectual delight, this light-footed memoir of grief tracks reverberations of loss and acceptance across a lifetime.

“I am over the moon to be working with Erin,” says Jill Meyers, editor of A Strange Object. “Her Fourteen Ways is formidable and full of heart. This book doesn't just engage the reader—it becomes a true companion.”

Fourteen Ways of Looking is slated to be published in April 2026.

Erin Vincent is the author of Grief Girl (Penguin Random House US/Pan Macmillan AUS) which was named a New York Public Library Best Book and an American Library Association Best Book Nominee. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, The Offing, The Guardian, Meanjin, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Technology Sydney and is currently studying for a PhD in creative writing with a focus on fragmentary literature written by women in the 21st century.

A Strange Object is an imprint dedicated to publishing surprising, heartbreaking fiction alongside thoughtful works of nonfiction. Co-founded by editor Jill Meyers, A Strange Object champions books that haunt and inspire—big works that engulf, that take risks, that buck form, that build warm dwellings in dark places.

Deep Vellum is a nonprofit publishing house and literary arts organization with the mission to bring the world into conversation through literature. Founded in 2013 in Dallas, TX, Deep Vellum has expanded to encompass six distinct publishing imprints and is now the largest publisher of translated literature in the United States.