Revelator's official publication date is September 1, 2026, but you can pre-order your copy now! 

 

Chosen by Dorothea Lasky as the winner of the 2026 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Revelator glitches and falters, iterates and alludes. This is a book concerned deeply with what’s real, what’s fake, and what’s fantasy.  

 

"Ellie Black writes with the urgency of someone who knows the body and the internet are both battleground and altar. These poems crackle electric with nerve and intellect—a live wire between the sacred and the pixelated. Black’s poems are unafraid to confront power, spectacle, and girlhood rendered mythic and monstrous. A most dazzling debut!"

                        -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Night Owl and Oceanic