Kevin Sampsell

With the release of my novel fast approaching (on 3/17/26), I thought I’d better give you some places to preorder it. Many thanks to my publisher, Impeller Press, and its head coach and designer, Patrick Barber.

Get yours: Powell’s Books * Asterism Books

“In Sampsell’s characteristically strange, raw, and tender style, we experience the world through the eyes-wide-open observations of the wondrous Tony Volcano–tiny baby, prodigy of the streets, human relationships, and the moon. It’s really fucking good.” 

–Charlie Stephens, author of A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest

In the exquisite Baby In the Night, Kevin Sampsell writes a coming-of-age story that isn’t set in the typical adolescent pivot into adulthood but in early childhood when the world and human behavior have a sort of sci-fi oddness, beauty, and menace. A coming-of-being story. Our young hero Tony is on a quest to find out about his father. He watches and imbibes sensations, attentively noting the words and actions around him; permeable and inquisitive, finding the edges of things and people. There’s a central mystery, a loss, like there always is in any life, and the answer will set the stage for the life to come. It’s the most engrossing, tender, and quietly strange book I’ve read in ages. 

–Nate Lippens, author of Ripcord and My Dead Book

The official launch event is Wednesday, March, 18th at 7pm at Powell’s Books, with very special guest and conversation partner, Kimberly King Parsons.

More events to be announced soon.