Graywolf Press

Graywolf Press

Founded	1974
Founder	Scott Walker and Kathleen Foster
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Minneapolis, Minnesota^[1]
Distribution	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan)
Official website	www.graywolfpress.org

Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.^[2]

Graywolf Press has established itself as one of the nation's leading nonprofit literary publishers through collaborations with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mellon Foundation, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux of New York, New York.^[3]

Graywolf Press currently publishes about 27 books a year, including the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, the recipient of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, and several translations supported by the Lannan Foundation.^[4]

History

Graywolf Press was founded by Scott Walker and Kathleen Foster in 1974, in a space provided by Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Washington. The press was named for the nearby Graywolf Ridge and Graywolf River, and for the canid. The press had early successes publishing poetry heavyweights like Denis Johnson and Tess Gallagher.^[5] In 1984, Graywolf Press was incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1985 with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. Fiona McCrae, formerly of Faber and Faber, became the director of Graywolf Press in 1994, following the departure of Scott Walker.^[6] In 2009, Graywolf Press moved its publishing operations to the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Books and authors

The Graywolf publication list includes novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, and poetry by writers such as Eula Biss, Elizabeth Alexander, Charles Baxter, Sven Birkerts, Ron Carlson, Maile Chapman, Percival Everett, James Franco, Dana Gioia, Albert Goldbarth, Linda Gregg, Eamon Grennan, Matthea Harvey, Tony Hoagland, Jane Kenyon, William Kittredge, Ander Monson, Per Petterson, Benjamin Percy, Carl Phillips, Catie Rosemurgy, Tracy K. Smith, A. Igoni Barrett, William Stafford, David Treuer, and Brenda Ueland.^[7]

The Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

The Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, founded in 2005, “seeks to acknowledge – and honor – the great traditions of literary nonfiction” by publishing “the boldest and most innovative books from emerging nonfiction writers” (Robert Polito). Submissions of finished books to the Nonfiction Prize are welcomed from previously unpublished U.S. authors. The winner is announced in April of each year.^[8]

List of Winners

2014: Riverine by Angela Palm
2013: Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean
2011: The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
2010: The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young
2008: Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss
2007: Black Glasses Like Clark Kent by Terese Svoboda
2006: Neck Deep and Other Predicaments by Ander Monson
2005: Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles by Kate Braverman

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