The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a
non-profit university press publishing
peer-reviewed books and journals. It publishes work by scholars from the global academic community; works of fiction, memoir and poetry under its imprint, Terrace Books; and serves the citizens of
Wisconsin by publishing important books about Wisconsin, the
Upper Midwest, and the
Great Lakes region.
UW Press annually awards the
Brittingham Prize in Poetry, the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, and The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry.
The press was founded in 1936 in
Madison Madison may refer to:
People
* Madison (name), a given name and a surname
* James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States
Place names
* Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...
and is one of more than 120 member presses in the
Association of American University Presses. The Journals Division was established in 1965. The press employs approximately 25 full and part-time staff, produces 40 to 60 new books a year, and publishes 11 journals. It also distributes books and some annual journals for selected smaller publishers. The press is a unit of the Graduate School of the
University of Wisconsin–Madison and serves the university's overall mission of research, instruction, and outreach beyond the university.
Books division
Since its first book appeared in 1937, the press has published and distributed more than 3,000 titles. The press has more than 1,400 titles currently in print, including:
*scholarly books: American studies and modern American history, African studies, anthropology, Classical studies, dance history, environmental studies, film/cinema history, gay & lesbian studies, modern European and Irish history, Jewish studies, Slavic and Eastern European studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and other subjects
*regional books: Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and the Great Lakes region
*books of general interest: natural history, poetry, biography, fiction, food, travel.
In 2003, the press acquired the publishing company ''Popular Press'', which specialized in works on
popular culture.
[Popular Press]
at UWPress.Wisc.edu; retrieved August 16, 2018
Notable authors and awards
Notable authors published by the University of Wisconsin Press include
Rigoberto González
Rigoberto González (born July 18, 1970) is an American writer and book critic. He is an editor and author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano. His most recent projec ...
,
Edmund White,
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Lucy Jane Bledsoe (born February 1, 1957 in Portland, Oregon, United States) is a novelist who has received many awards for her fiction, including two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships, a California Arts Council Fellowsh ...
,
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Olena Kalytiak Davis (born September 16, 1963) is a Ukrainian-American poet.
Davis is the author of five poetry collections, her most recent being ''Late Summer Ode''. Her collection ''The Poem She Didn't Write And Other Poems'' (2014, Copper Ca ...
,
Alden Jones
Alden Jones (born June 5, 1972) is an American writer and educator. She is the author of memoirs ''The Wanting Was a Wilderness'' (2020) and ''The Blind Masseuse'' (2013) and the short story collection ''Unaccompanied Minors'' (2014). ''The Blin ...
,
Lesléa Newman,
Trebor Healey,
Floyd Skloot
Floyd Skloot (born July 6, 1947) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Some of his work concerns his experience with neurological damage caused by a virus contracted in 1988.
His book ''In the Shadow of Memory'' gained favorable critica ...
,
Kelly Cherry
Kelly Cherry (December 21, 1940 – March 18, 2022) was a novelist, poet, essayist, professor, and literary critic[Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham (; born May 9, 1950) is an American poet. The Poetry Foundation called Graham "one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war generation." She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at ...]
, and
Michael Carroll. The press has also published new editions and translations of work by
Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Leo Tolstoy, and
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes (, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel ''Nightwood'' (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist litera ...
.
Books and authors published by the press have won The American Book Award from the
Before Columbus Foundation, the
Lambda Literary Award, the
Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction,
Independent Publisher Book Awards
The Independent Publisher Book Awards, also styled the IPPY Awards, are a set of annual book awards for independently published titles. They are the longest-running unaffiliated contest open exclusively to independent presses. The IPPY Awards ar ...
, NEA Literature Fellowships, the
Guggenheim Fellowship,
Awards, and other honors.
Journals division
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Arctic Anthropology''
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Contemporary Literature
Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II in the English-speaking world. Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance.
History
Literary movements are always contemporary to the writer di ...
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*''Ecological Restoration''
*''Journal of Human Resources''
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Land Economics
In economics, land comprises all naturally occurring resources as well as geographic land. Examples include particular geographical locations, mineral deposits, forests, fish stocks, atmospheric quality, geostationary orbits, and portions of t ...
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*''Landscape Journal''
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Luso-Brazilian Review''
*''Monatshefte''
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Native Plants Journal
''Native Plants Journal'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established to disperse "practical information about planting and growing North American (Canada, Mexico, and the United States) native plants for conservation, restoration, reforest ...
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References
External links
University of Wisconsin Press
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Publishing companies established in 1936
1936 establishments in Wisconsin