Etruscan Press is an American publisher founded in 2001 with a grant from the Oristaglio Foundation. A non-profit co-operative of poets and writers, Etruscan Press' goal is to "produce and promote books that nurture the dialogue among genres, achieve a distinctive voice, and reshape the literary and cultural histories of which we are a part." Currently housed in the creative writing program of Wilkes University

Wilkes University

Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students...

, Etruscan Press is distributed nationally by Small Press Distribution

Small Press Distribution

Small Press Distribution, or SPD, is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. As their name indicates, the core of their mission is to act as an umbrella distributor and marketer for hundreds of smaller literary publishers...

 and Consortium Distribution.

Genres

Etruscan Press publishes books of poems, novels, short stories, creative non-fiction, criticism, and anthologies. Two of the poetry collections have been National Book Award

National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of American literary awards. Started in 1950, the Awards are presented annually to American authors for literature published in the current year. In 1989 the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization which now oversees and manages the National Book...

 finalists.

Published books

• Parallel Lives, by Michael Lind
  Michael Lind
  Michael Lind is an American writer. Currently Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., Editor of New American Contract and its blog Value Added, and a columnist for Salon magazine. Lind was a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School and...
  
  
• God Bless: A Political/Poetic Discourse, H.L. Hix
• Chromatic, H.L. Hix
• The Confessions of Doc Williams & Other Poems, William Heyen
  William Heyen
  William Helmuth Heyen is an American poet, editor, and literary critic. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Suffolk County...
  
  
• Art Into Life, Frederick Karl
  Frederick Karl
  Frederick Karl was a literary biographer, best known for his work on Joseph Conrad, a literary critic, and an editor. He spent 25 years teaching at City College of New York and then followed with 18 years at New York University....
  
  
• Shadows of Houses, H.L. Hix
• The White Horse: A Columbian Journey, Diane Thiel
• Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation, H.L. Hix
• Crow Man, Tom Bailey
  Tom Bailey (Author)
  Tom Bailey is an author, editor, and teacher in the Creative Writing program at Susquehanna University. He has published two novels, a collection of short fiction, and two textbooks on writing short stories. He has also been widely published in anthologies and literary journals including New...
  
  
• Shoah Train, William Heyen
• Cinder, Bruce Bond
  Bruce Bond
  Bruce Bond is a poet, editor for American Literary Review , and an English professor at the University of North Texas.His poetry has been featured in a variety of literary publications, such as: The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Georgia Review, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, and Poetry,...
  
  
• Free Concert: New and Selected Poems, Milton Kessler
  Milton Kessler
  Milton Kessler was a poet and an English professor at Binghamton University. He was one of the founders of the university's Creative Writing Program.-Life:...
  
  
• As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry, H.L. Hix
• September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, William Heyen