Graywolf Press

Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in St. Paul, Minnesota. Founded on a dedication to the creation and promotion of thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature essential to a vital and diverse culture, Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Now in its thirty-fourth year of independent publishing, 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.

Graywolf Press currently publishes about 24 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.

History

Graywolf Press was founded by Scott Walker in 1974, in a space provided by Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Washington. 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.

Books and Authors

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

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 Submissions of finished books to the Nonfiction Prize are welcomed from previously unpublished U.S. authors.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.

Previous winners of the Nonfiction Prize are:

*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

External links

* [http://www.graywolfpress.org/ Graywolf Press Homepage]
* [http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/12/29/graywolffunding/ Graywolf is turning readers into donors] by Marianne Combs, Minnesota Public Radio December 29, 2006
* [http://www.lannan.org/lf/lit/detail/graywolf-press/ Lannon Foundation Profile of Graywolf Press]
* [http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/10/08_combsm_smallpresses/ Minnesota: land of long-lasting small presses] by Marianne Combs, Minnesota Public Radio October 8, 2004
* [http://www.poets.org/state.php/varState/MN/ Poets.Org Profile of Graywolf Press]