Mayapple Press is a small literary press started by poet and translator Judith Kerman in 1978. After a hiatus between 1982 and 1992, it became active again, publishing generally one to three titles a year until 2004, when the press became more active. For the past several years, Mayapple Press has been publishing 12-14 titles a year. Mayapple Press has produced more than 70 titles, primarily poetry by single authors, but also poetry anthologies, short fiction and Great Lakes nonfiction. The Press has a special interest in works that straddle conventional categories: Great Lakes, women, Caribbean, translations, science fiction poetry, recent immigrant experience, Judaica. Publications are in both chapbook and trade paperback formats.

Mayapple Press authors include Jayne Pupek

Jayne Pupek

Jayne Pupek was an American poet and fiction writer. She wrote and published two collections of poetry: The Livelihood of Crows and Forms of Intercession , and one novel, Tomato Girl , which was called a "wrenching, stunning, and pitch-perfect novel that captures the best of Southern...

 Conrad Hilberry

Conrad hilberry

Conrad Hilberry is an American poet.Hilberry went to Oberlin College for his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts, and continued his studies with a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a professor of English at Kalamazoo College from 1962 to 1998.Hilberry is the...

, 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...

, Penelope Schott

Penelope Schott

Penelope Scambly Schott is a feminist poet and former professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College and Rutgers University. She has published several books of poetry and has taught poetry writing for Thomas Edison State College. At Educational Testing Service in the 1980s she was part...

, Myra Sklarew

Myra Sklarew

Myra Sklarew is an American biologist, poet and teacher.-Life:She received a biology degree from Tufts University, in 1956. She studied bacterial genetics and bacterial viruses with Salvador Luria and Max Delbruck at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...

, Gerry LaFemina ,
Judith Minty, Brian Aldiss

Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...

, Eleanor Lerman

Eleanor Lerman

Eleanor Lerman is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.-Life:She grew up in the Bronx and Far Rockaway; she is a lifelong New Yorker....

, Mariela Griffor,
Dennis Hinrichsen, David Lunde, Toni Ortner, Judith McCombs, Zilka Joseph ,
Claire Keys
and Nancy Botkin .

Several books have been nominated for 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....

, Michigan Notable Books, the Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize

The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award. It was founded in 2000 by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin. The awards go to one Canadian and one international poet who writes in the English language....

, and other prizes; Johanny Vazquez Paz's Streetwise Poems/Poemas Callejeros , received Honorable Mention for the Mariposa First Book Award of the 2008 International Latino Book Awards ,
Kathryn Kirkpatrick's poetry collection, Out of the Garden, was a Finalist in the 2008 Southern Independent Booksellers Association Book Award.

Mayapple Press is a member of CLMP (Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses) and of AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs

Association of Writers & Writing Programs

The Association of Writers & Writing Programs is a literary organization whose mission is "to foster literary talent and achievement, to advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and to serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing."-Members:AWP...

). Books are distributed 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...

, Partners Distributing, and are available online at Amazon.com

Amazon.com

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and other major online booksellers.

External links

• Mayapple Press
• Publisher Judith Kerman