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.
Publishing history
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.
Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another , in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute. In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non-profit publishing program.
In 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.
Aunt Lute continues to operate independently as a nonprofit to the present day.
Titles
Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals), Gloria Anzaldúa ('), 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.
Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/Filipina American women writers and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers, as well as a number of translated texts.
Other titles are listed below:
Anthologies and collections
- Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers, eds. Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios
- City of One: Young Writers Speak to the World by WritersCorps
- El Mundo Zurdo; El Mundo Zurdo, 2; El Mundo Zurdo, 3, eds. Norma E. Cantu, Christina L. Gutierrez, Norma Alarcón and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
- Frontline Feminism, ed. Karen Kahn
- Good Girls Marry Doctors, ed. Piyali Bhattacharya
- Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, eds. ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera with an introduction by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
- Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras, ed. Gloria Anzaldúa
- New Voices 1 by DeeAnne Davis, Rabie Harris, and Gloria Yamato
- Our Feet Walk the Sky by Women of South Asian Descent Collective (WOSAD)
- Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS, eds. Imani Harrington and Chyrell Bellamy
- Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change, eds. Anne Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl
- Shadow on a Tightrope, eds. Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser
- Solid Ground, by WritersCorps
- The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th through 19th Centuries, eds. Lisa Maria Hogeland and Mary Klages
- The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two, eds. Lisa Maria Hogeland and Shay Brown
- The Judy Grahn Reader by Judy Grahn
- The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993), ed. Asha Kanwar
- Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers, eds. Carolyn Dunn and Carol Comfort
- Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories by Contemporary Puerto Rican Women, ed. Diana Velez
Awards
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.
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