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Founded | 1982 |
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Founder | Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss |
Headquarters location | San Francisco, CA |
Distribution | Small Press Distribution |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Feminist literature |
Official website |
auntlute |
Aunt Lute Books is an American multicultural feminist press based in San Francisco, California. The publisher also seeks to work with and support first-time authors. [1]
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa. [2]
Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another feminist publisher, in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute. [3] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non-profit publishing program.[ citation needed]
In 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis. [2] [4]
Aunt Lute continues to operate independently as a nonprofit to the present day.[ citation needed]
Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde ( The Cancer Journals), Gloria Anzaldúa ( Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza), Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe ( Shell Shaker, winner of the 2002 Before Columbus American Book Award, and Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story), Alice Walker, and Paula Gunn Allen.
Call Me Woman, the autobiography of South African activist Ellen Kuzwayo, Radmila Manojlovic Zarkovic's anthology, I Remember: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees, and Cherry Muhanji's Lambda Award-winning novel Her have also been published by Aunt Lute. [5]
Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/ Filipina American women writers [6] and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers, [7] as well as a number of translated texts. [8]
Other titles are listed below:
Aunt Lute Books won the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 Best of the Small Presses Award, granted by Standards, an international cultural studies magazine. [9]
This article needs additional citations for
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Founded | 1982 |
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Founder | Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss |
Headquarters location | San Francisco, CA |
Distribution | Small Press Distribution |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Feminist literature |
Official website |
auntlute |
Aunt Lute Books is an American multicultural feminist press based in San Francisco, California. The publisher also seeks to work with and support first-time authors. [1]
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa. [2]
Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another feminist publisher, in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute. [3] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non-profit publishing program.[ citation needed]
In 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis. [2] [4]
Aunt Lute continues to operate independently as a nonprofit to the present day.[ citation needed]
Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde ( The Cancer Journals), Gloria Anzaldúa ( Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza), Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe ( Shell Shaker, winner of the 2002 Before Columbus American Book Award, and Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story), Alice Walker, and Paula Gunn Allen.
Call Me Woman, the autobiography of South African activist Ellen Kuzwayo, Radmila Manojlovic Zarkovic's anthology, I Remember: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees, and Cherry Muhanji's Lambda Award-winning novel Her have also been published by Aunt Lute. [5]
Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/ Filipina American women writers [6] and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers, [7] as well as a number of translated texts. [8]
Other titles are listed below:
Aunt Lute Books won the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 Best of the Small Presses Award, granted by Standards, an international cultural studies magazine. [9]