''Belt Publishing'' is an independent press founded in 2013 in

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–United States border, Canada–U.S. maritime border ...

. Originally a publisher of anthologies about

Rust Belt The Rust Belt, formerly the Steel Belt or Factory Belt, is an area of the United States that underwent substantial Deindustrialization, industrial decline in the late 20th century. The region is centered in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic (Uni ...

cities, since 2015 Belt has moved into publishing a wider scope of both fiction and nonfiction. It has been described as "promot nga kind of progressive Rust Belt pride without succumbing to cliché or hipster irony" in the ''New York Times,'' and "serv ngas a thoughtful foil to national-media characterizations of the region as either hopelessly dystopic or cheerfully rebounding, sticking instead to a knotty middle" in the ''Chicago Tribune''. In February 2024, it was announced that the press company was acquired by

Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing is an American Publishing, publisher of neighborhood, local history, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.(analysis of the successful ''Images of America'' series). Arcadia Publishing also runs th ...

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