Three Rooms Press is a

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.' It was founded in 1993 by Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes with a focus on

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, but the press now publishes mainly

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, and art. Three Rooms Press's name was inspired by one of the themes in

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's play

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. The press also manages an annual international

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and poetry journal called ''Maintenant'', which was featured by the Brussels Poetry Fest in 2016 and 2017. Issues of ''Maintenant'' have been featured and sold in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the BelVUE Museum in Brussels. Three Rooms Press books are distributed by PGW / Ingram.

Associated authors

Three Rooms Press authors include:

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major Postmodern literature, postmodern author who influen ...

Robert Silverberg Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is a prolific American science fiction author and editor. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo Award, Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a SFWA Grand ...

Johanna Drucker Johanna Drucker (born May 30, 1952) is an American author, book artist, visual theorist, and cultural critic. Her scholarly writing documents and critiques visual language: letterforms, typography, visual poetry, art, and lately, digital art a ...

Julia Watts Julia Watts is an American fiction writer. Career Julia Watts is the author of novels, short stories, etc., especially in the genres of young adult fiction and lesbian fiction/erotica. Her novels include '' Finding H.F.'' for which she won the 2 ...

William Least Heat-Moon William Least Heat-Moon (born William Lewis Trogdon, August 27, 1939) is an American travel writer and historian. He describes his heritage as English, Irish, and Osage. He is the author of several books which chronicle unusual journeys throu ...

and Meagan Brothers, among others.

Awards

Several of Three Rooms Press' books have won awards. ''The Obama Inheritance,'' edited by Gary Philips, won the 2018

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for Best Anthology, and also earned the Bronze Medal for the ''Foreword Reviews ''Indie Book Award for Anthologies. ''Atrium'', a poetry collection by

Hala Alyan Hala Alyan (born July 27, 1986) is a Palestinian-American writer, poet, and clinical psychologist who specializes in trauma, addiction, and cross-cultural behavior. Her writing covers aspects of identity and the effects of displacement, particula ...

, won the

Arab American Book Award The Arab American Book Award, established in 2006, is an annual literary award to celebrate and support the research of, and the written work of, Arab Americans and their culture. The Arab American Book Award encourages the publication and excelle ...

for poetry in 2013. ''Weird Girl and What's His Name'', a young adult novel by Meagan Brothers, was named IndieFab's Young Adult Book of the Year in 2015, and was named one of the best teen books of 2015 by

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References

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