Poet Jillian Weise sold The Colony to Anne Horowitz at Soft Skull Press via agent Julia Kenny of the Elaine Markson Agency. The book tells “the story of a 25 year-old who starts up a relationship with a swashbuckling, suicidal cowboy and develops a friendship with Charles Darwin, all at the Cold Spring Harbor Colony, where her missing leg will be re-grown.”
Weise’s poems have been honored by the Academy of American Poets, the Emily Dickinson Prize Anthology, Pushcart Nominations, and Verse Daily. After working as an editorial assistant at The Paris Review, she was the Alan Dugan Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and is now a Fellow at the University of Cinncinati.