Aunt Lute Books

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Aunt Lute Books is a multicultural feminist press with a mandate to publish and distribute "culturally diverse writing expressing the complexity of lesbian and women's lives."[1] The publisher has a stated aim to embrace the opportunity to work with and support first-time authors.[2]

[edit] Publishing history

In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[3]

Aunt Lute merged with another feminist publisher, Spinsters Ink in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute.[4] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non profit publishing program, and in 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.[5][6]

Aunt Lute continues to operate on its own to the present day.

[edit] Titles

Aunt Lute has published a number of high profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe, 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 all been published by Aunt Lute.[7]

[edit] Awards

Aunt Lute Books was the 2004 - 2005 and the 2005 - 2006 Best of the Small Presses Award granted by Standards, an International Cultural Studies Magazine.

[edit] See also

Spinsters Ink

[edit] External links

Aunt Lute Books

[edit] References

  1. ^ Aunt Lute Mission Statement
  2. ^ Aunt Lute Mission
  3. ^ Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134
  4. ^ Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted [1]
  5. ^ Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134
  6. ^ Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN:0415913764, p44
  7. ^ Aunt Lute Catalogue