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Autumn House Press is an independent, non-profit literary publishing company

Company

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based in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, United States

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In a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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poetry feature, Bob Hoover writes that "Simms says he started the operation after he noticed that the 'large traditional commercial presses, had either been bought up or merged and were emphasizing literary titles less. I saw a need for a high-quality poetry press to fill that vacuum.' " Launched in 1998, the press publishes books of poetry and fiction by such authors as Ruth L. Schwartz

Ruth L. Schwartz

Ruth L. Schwartz is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Dear Good Naked Morning . She graduated from Wesleyan University, with a B.A., from the University of Michigan, with an M.F.A., from the University of Integrative Learning with a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology...

, Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...

, Chana Bloch

Chana Bloch

Chana Bloch is an American poet, translator, and scholar. She is a professor emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, California.-Life and work:...

, Ed Ochester

Ed Ochester

Edwin Frank Ochester is an American poet and editor.Born September 15 in Brooklyn, New York, he was educated at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

, Sue Ellen Thompson, Robert Strong, Anne Marie Macari

Anne Marie Macari

Anne Marie Macari is an American poet. Her most recent book is She Heads Into the Wilderness . Her first book won The APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry...

, Andrea Hollander Budy

Andrea Hollander Budy

Andrea Hollander Budy is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Woman in the Painting . Her work appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, FIELD, Five Points, Shenandoah, and Creative Nonfiction...

, and Raza Ali Hasan, as well as a number of comprehensive anthologies including When She Named Fire: an Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women.

Autumn House also publishes Coal Hill Review, an online poetry and nonfiction magazine; sponsors three national literary contests; and collaborates with Pittsburgh community venues to present The Autumn House Master Authors Reading Series. The press has been honored by annual grants from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, and others. In describing the press's success, Abby Mendelson wrote "Kudos for their efforts abound, as do national awards, prestigious prizes from North Carolina and Philadelphia, an NEA grant for one writer. Autumn House work has been anthologized, blessed by radio ace Garrison Keillor, garnered national press." Autumn House Press titles have been reviewed in such venues as Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Georgia Review, and The Hollins Critic, and Autumn House authors featured on Prosody (WYEP radio).

Michael Simms

Michael Simms (publisher)

Michael Simms is an American poet and literary publisher. His most recent book is Black Stone . His poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including 5 A.M., Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Southwest Review, and West Branch. His poems have also...

is founder of the press and serves as President and Editor-in-Chief. He is a poet who has taught at the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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, Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...

, Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

, and Duquesne University

Duquesne University

Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of...

; he presently teaches in the Chatham University Master of Fine Arts Program

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

in Creative Writing

Creative writing

Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature. Works which fall into this category include novels, epics, short stories, and poems...

. Richard (Rick) St. John, a poet, is Executive Director of the press. He received degrees in English from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

and the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

. In 2002, he completed a mid-career Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

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