* Winner of the Sator New Works Award. * New York Public Library's "Best Books of 2022" *  Kirkus Reviews ' "Best Fiction Books of 2022" *  2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, Longlist. *  "A Most Anticipated Book" — Lambda Literary , Vol. 1 Brooklyn , Tor.com,  The Chicago Review of Books ,  LGBTQReads, Ms. Magazine , The Mary Sue My Volcano  is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a menagerie of characters, as they each undergo personal eruptions, while the Earth itself is constantly shifting. Parable, myth, science-fiction, eco-horror,  My Volcano  is a radical work of literary art, emerging as a subversive, intoxicating artistic statement by John Elizabeth Stintzi. On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock growing from the Central Park Reservoir is spotted by a jogger. Three weeks later, when it finally stops growing, it’s nearly two-and-a-half miles tall, and has been determined to be an active volcano. As the volcano grows and then looms over New York, an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City finds himself transported 500 years into the past, where he witnesses the fall of the Aztec Empire; a Nigerian scholar in Tokyo studies a folktale about a woman of fire who descends a mountain and destroys an entire village; a white trans writer in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilization on an impossible planet; a nurse tends to Syrian refugees in Greece while grappling with the trauma of living through the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan; a nomadic farmer in Mongolia is stung by a bee, magically transforming him into a green, thorned, flowering creature that aspires to connect every living thing into its consciousness. With its riveting and audacious vision,  My Volcano  is a tapestry on fire, a distorted and cinematic new work from the fiercely talented John Elizabeth Stintzi. Additional Reading: The Rumpus  presents:  "What to Read When It’s the End of the World,"  a reading list by  My Volcano  author John Elizabeth Stintzi, April 22, 2022. My Volcano is Winner of the Sator New Works Award The Sator New Works Award, selected by Two Dollar Radio editors, goes to an author who identifies as transgender or non-binary for a book-length work of fiction or non-fiction. This publishing prize was made possible by Sator Press, a nonprofit publishing company operated by Ken Baumann from 2009-2019. My Volcano  is included in the New York Public Library's "Best Books of 2022" View the full list of "Best Books for Adults 2022" My Volcano  is included in  Kirkus Reviews'  "Best Fiction Books of 2022" View the full list of "Best Fictional Voices of 2022" My Volcano  is Longlisted for the 2022 BPL Book Prize Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Eagles announce the longlist nominees for the 2022 BPL Book Prize. "I will read anything that comes from JES’s twisted imagination and love it. This ingenious, insightful, unconventional and expansive eco-horror is no exception." —Karla J. Strand,  Ms. Magazine "2022 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year!" " My Volcano , an ambitious, astonishing pageant of a book... This is also a book about contemporary estrangement and violence, about the wounds and hauntings of history, of climate collapse… I loved that the book felt like an explosive device injected into our current era—and into history itself—and detonated. I loved the bombast of the book, the feeling that I was tearing through time and space while reading it, the mystery of how all the pieces fit together, the remarkable and unrelenting presence of each rendered moment." —Lauren Markham, 2023 Tournament of Books ( The Morning News ) MARCH 8 (2023) • PLAY-IN MATCH:  2 A.M. in Little America  v.  An Island  v.  My Volcano ,  Judged by Lauren Markham " My Volcano  is a radical novel in the sense that it imagines total, systemic renewal as a solution to current systems of oppression. It imagines all these violent vectors as, ultimately, attacks on human connectivity. On a micro level, it explores this disruption and detachment too. Characters are often watching others through screens, yearning to communicate what they’re holding within to people whom they find it easier to experience through distance." —ML Kejera, 2023 Tournament of Books ( The Morning News ) MARCH 17 • OPENING ROUND:  The Rabbit Hutch  v.  My Volcano , Judged by ML Kejera "Remarkably unique... Ultimately, the volcano offers a symbol of hope—of renewal and creation... The culmination of the novel offers the reader a feeling of solace, not loss—of transcendence, not defeat. Readers of  My Volcano  may grapple with the erratic, compelling, and transcendent prospect of our present and our future, but they’ll find it worth the extraordinary adventure." —Samantha Fitch,  West Trade Review (Read the review of  My Volcano ) Joe Walters of  Independent Book Review  names  My Volcano  at the top of the list of  "30 Impressive Indie Books of 2022" "Stintzi’s prose is a flow of incredible empathy.