Tupelo Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1999. It produced its first titles in 2001, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Originally located in Dorset, Vermont, the press has since moved to North Adams, Massachusetts.

History, staff and funding

Tupelo Press was founded by Jeffrey Levine, Publisher and Artistic Director, and author of three collections of poetry. The staff includes Kristina Marie Darling Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, David Rossitter, Managing Editor; Cassandra Cleghorn, Associate Editor for Poetry & Nonfiction, and Kirsten Miles, National Director of the 30/30 Project and National Coordinator for Tupelo Press Seminars. Tupelo Press publishes the winners of its national poetry competitions, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission. Awards given by Tupelo Press include the Dorset Prize, the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry, and the Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Tupelo Press titles were previously distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, but in 2010 they left Consortium to create an independent distribution venture. Tupelo Press books are also available from Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and Small Press Distribution. The press receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, private foundations, and individuals through donations, book sales, and annual subscriptions. Tupelo Press partnered with the College of Charleston and the literary journal '' Crazyhorse'' to establish the ''Crazyhorse''/Tupelo Press Publishing Institute to address the demand for "well-qualified editors and publishers...and to augment the career prospects of emerging writers... The institute is a graduate-level program open to writers at any post-baccalaureate level, whether finished with a graduate program in creative writing, currently enrolled or considering attending one." In 2013, Tupelo Press began partnering with the Hill-Stead Museum for the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, a prestigious national poetry prize for adult writers. Established in 2002, the Prize has drawn submissions from around the country that have been judged by renowned poets such as Martha Collins, Patricia Smith and Tony Hoagland.

Notable authors and honors

Notable authors published by Tupelo Press include Lawrence Raab, Jeffrey Harrison, Amaud Jamaul Johnson,

Ruth Ellen Kocher Ruth Ellen Kocher (born July 26, 1965, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American poet. She is the recipient of the PEN/Open Book Award, the Dorset Prize, the Green Rose Prize, and the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. She has received fellowshi ...

, Mark Halliday, G.C. Waldrep,

Larissa Szporluk Larissa Szporluk is an American poet and professor. Her most recent book is ''Embryos & Idiots'' (Tupelo Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Daedalus'', ''Faultline'', ''Meridian'', ''American Poetr ...

Dan Beachy-Quick Dan Beachy-Quick is an American poet, writer, and critic. He is the author of eight collections of poems, most recently, ''Variations on Dawn and Dusk'' ( Omnidawn Publishing), longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. His ot ...

Ellen Doré Watson Ellen Doré Watson is an American poet, translator and teacher. Career Watson is author of six collections of poems, most recently, ''pray me stay eager'' (Alice James Books). Her book, ''Ladder Music,'' was a New York/New England Award winner fro ...

, Ilya Kaminsky,

Jennifer Militello Jennifer Militello (born ) is an American poet and professor. She is author of the award-winning memoir ''Knock Wood'' which appeared from Dzanc Books in 2019, and five collections of poetry including ''The Pact'', Tupelo Press, 2021. Her first fu ...

, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Rigoberto González, Annie Finch, Matthew Zapruder, Natasha Sajé, Joan Houlihan, Thomas Centolella, Maggie Smith, Lauren Camp and Ted Deppe. Their authors have been recipients of many awards including the Whiting Writers' Award, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the '' ForeWord Magazine'' Poetry Book of the Year, the Addison M. Metcalf Award in Literature, San Francisco State University Poetry Center Book Award, Norma Farber First Book Award, NEA Literature Fellowships and Guggenheim Fellowship, the

PEN/Open Book PEN/Open Book (known as the Beyond Margins Award through 2009) is a program intended to foster racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities, and works to establish access for diverse literary groups to the publishing i ...

and numerous other honors. Tupelo Press titles have been reviewed in ''The Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, The New Yorker, Library Journal, Booklist, The Women’s Review of Books, Ploughshares, The Philadelphia Inquirer,'' and many other publications.Tupelo Press > Author Pages > Reviews
/ref> Tupelo also publishes a series of poetry in translation, including the work of such internationally respected authors and translators as Polina Barskova (translated by Ilya Kaminsky, Matthew Zapruder and

Katie Farris Katie Farris (born August 10, 1983) is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, academic and editor. Life and career Katie Farris's work appears in ''The Nation'', '' McSweeneys'', '' Granta'', ''The Believer'', ''Poetry'', ''Poetry London'' ...

), René Char (translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson), and Joumana Haddad (translated by Khaled Mattawa).

References

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Sources

Tupelo Press Website

External links

Tupelo Press Website

Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses > Directory of Member Publishers

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution > Tupelo Press Publisher Page

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