Cover Reveal: AN ARCHIVE OF BRIGHTNESS by Kelsey Socha

We’re delighted to announce a new title and cover design for Kelsey Socha’s debut novella, forthcoming from Lanternfish Press on August 30, 2022.

Lanternfish Press announced the acquisition of Kelsey Socha’s debut novella on June 21 last year with the working title Antarctica and You. The novel will be published with the title An Archive of Brightness as part of our Fall 2022 catalog.

The cover of An Archive of Brightness was designed by Kimberly Glyder with art direction by Amanda Thomas.

Two stoic lobstermen harboring a secret affection. A lonely architect building houses and machines from the exoskeletons of scorpions in a desert town. A girl painfully growing into new wings. A flock of crows and an untidy vulture observe and collect these moments of human tenderness as they build an archive of brightness. Each love story becomes, in its own way, the end of a world—and the beginning of a new one.

Kelsey Socha once wrote and staged a performance piece about lobsters before subsequently quitting theatre to become a librarian. She is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, but now lives in Western Massachusetts with her wife and two cats.