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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

North Adams, Massachusetts

North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 13,708 as of the 2010 census, making it the least populous city in the state...

History, staff and funding

Tupelo Press was founded by Jeffrey Levine

Jeffrey Levine

Jeffrey Levine is an American poet, publisher, musician, and attorney; author of two poetry collections, most recently, Rumor of Cortez . His poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines including Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Poetry International, Virginia Quarterly Review,...

, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, and author of two collections of poetry. The staff includes Elyse Newhouse, Associate Publisher; Jim Schley

Jim Schley

Jim Schley is an American poet, teacher, editor, and theater artist. He is author of two poetry collections, most recently, As When, In Season , and has had his poems published in many literary journals and magazines including Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Rivendell, and Orion Magazine, in anthologies...

, Managing Editor; Grace Dane Mazur, Fiction Editor; Cassandra Cleghorn, Associate Editor for Poetry & Nonfiction; Nancy Naomi Carlson, Associate Editor; Carol Ann Davis, Associate Editor; Rose Carlson, Administrative Director; and Marie Gauthier, Director of Sales & Marketing.

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 Annual Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book of Poetry Contest 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. The press receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

, private foundations, and individuals through donations, book sales, and annual subscriptions.

Tupelo Press partnered with the College of Charleston

College of Charleston

The College of Charleston is a public, sea-grant and space-grant university located in historic downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States...

and the literary journal Crazyhorse
Crazyhorse (magazine)
Crazyhorse is an American magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, and essays. It is published twice yearly by the Department of English and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...

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."

Notable authors and honors

Notable authors published by Tupelo Press include Mark Halliday

Mark Halliday

Mark Halliday is a noted American poet, professor and critic. He is author of five collections of poetry, most recently Keep This Forever...

, G.C. Waldrep

G.C. Waldrep

George Calvin Waldrep is an American poet and historian. -Biography:Waldrep earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees in History at Harvard University and Duke University, respectively, before receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.He was visiting professor at Kenyon...

, Larissa Szporluk

Larissa Szporluk

Larissa Szporluk is an American poet and professor. Her most recent book is Embryos & Idiots . Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Daedalus, Faultline, Meridian, American Poetry Review, and Black Warrior Review...

, Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick

Dan Beachy-Quick is an American poet, writer, and critic. He is the author of four collections of poems, most recently, Circle's Apprentice , and A Whaler’s Dictionary , a collection of essays about Moby Dick. His honors include a Lannan Foundation Residency.His poems have appeared widely in...

, Ellen Doré Watson

Ellen Doré Watson

Ellen Doré Watson is an American poet, translator and teacher.Watson is author of five collections of poems, most recently, Dogged Hearts . Her book, Ladder Music, was a New York/New England Award winner from Alice James Books...

, Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky

Ilya Kaminsky is a Russian-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He began to write poetry seriously as a teenager in Odessa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled The Blessed City. His first published poetry collection in English was a chapbook, Musica Humana...

, Jennifer Militello

Jennifer Militello

Jennifer Militello is an American poet and professor. She is author of the chapbook, Anchor Chain, Open Sail . Her first full-length collection of poetry, Flinch of Song, was published in 2009 by Tupelo Press, and won the Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First Book Prize...

, Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an Asian American poet, best known for her jovial and accessible reading style and lush descriptions of exotic foods and landscapes...

, Rigoberto González

Rigoberto González

Rigoberto González is an American writer and book critic. He is an editor and author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano...

, Annie Finch

Annie Finch

Annie Finch is an American poet. She is author of numerous books of poetry as well as poetry translation, poetry anthologies and criticism, opera libretti, and poetic collaborations with visual art, music, theater, and dance. Her writings on poetry address topics including meter and prosody,...

, Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist , won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006...

, Natasha Sajé

Natasha Sajé

-Life:She grew up in New York City, and New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland, College Park.She teaches at Westminster College...

, Joan Houlihan

Joan Houlihan

Joan Houlihan is an American poet. She is the author of three books, most recently The Us , and The Mending Worm , winner of the 2005 Green Rose Prize in Poetry...

, and Ted Deppe

Ted Deppe

Theodore Deppe is an American poet and professor, author of four books of poetry. His most recent collection is Orpheus on the Red Line , and he has had his poems published in many literary journals and magazines including The Kenyon Review, Harper’s Magazine, Poetry, The Southern Review,...

.

Their authors have been recipients of many awards including the Whiting Writers' Award

Whiting Writers' Award

The Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...

, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize

Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....

, the ForeWord Magazine
ForeWord (magazine)
ForeWord is a trade journal published six times yearly with the tagline, “Reviews of Good Books Independently Published.” The magazine is distributed primarily to librarians and booksellers to familiarize them with upcoming books from small, independent, and university presses, as well as...

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

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

, and numerous other honors. Tupelo Press titles have been reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, The Women’s Review of Books, Ploughshares, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications.

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

Ilya Kaminsky

, Matthew Zapruder

Matthew Zapruder

and Katie Farris

Katie Farris

Katie Farris is a fiction writer, translator, and professor.Farris has taught at UC Berkeley and Brown University and has served as a Visiting Professor at New England College's MFA Program...

), René Char

René Char

René Char was a 20th century French poet.-Biography:Char was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse department of France, the youngest of four children of Emile Char and Marie-Therese Rouget, where his father was mayor and managing director of the Vaucluse plasterworks...

(translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson), and Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad

Joumana Haddad is a renowned Lebanese poet, translator and journalist.-Career:She has already published several poetry collections, widely acclaimed by critics...

(translated by Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English...

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