Red Ochre, Baobab’s literary imprint, is devoted to elevating voices that rescript our conceptions of identity and place. The imprint launched with Allison Pitinii Davis’s 2017 poetry collection, Line Study of a Motel Clerk, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award’s Berru Award for Poetry and the Ohioana Book Award. The collection examines a family’s century-long effort to make a home in a changing world, with all the grit, beauty and truth of the working-class immigrant struggle. Additional Red Ochre titles include Reckonings, the debut poetry collection by Ryan Walsh that interrogates the dissolution of American industry and rural community, and What it Might Feel Like to Hope, a short story collection by Dorene O’Brien, which considers the infinitely powerful, and equally naïve and damning force that is human hope.