See the cover for The Last Stampede by EC Dorgan

The Last Stampede will be published by House of Anansi on April 27, 2027. It is available for pre-order now.

is honored to reveal the cover of The Last Stampede, designed by Alysia Shewchuk and forthcoming from House of Anansi.

Below, Dorgan discusses the vivid image of a horse woman and her broncos that followed her throughout the writing process, the family photographs that helped inspire the design, and how the finished cover blends Western imagery, the Canadian prairie landscape, and the novel’s surreal, dystopian world.

While writing the book, did you have any ideas for what you wanted the cover to look like?