Aunt Lute Books

Aunt Lute Books is a multicultural feminist press whose mission is to "publish literature by women whose voices have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing" and "distribute literature that expresses the true complexity of women’s lives and the possibilities for personal and social change."[1] The publisher has a stated aim to embrace the opportunity to work with and support first-time authors.[1]

Aunt Lute Books
Founded1982
FounderBarb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss
Headquarters locationSan Francisco, CA
DistributionSmall Press Distribution
Publication typesBooks
Official websiteauntlute.com

Publishing history

In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[2]

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.[3] 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.[2][4]

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 (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 are all 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]

  • A Simple Revolution; by Judy Grahn
  • Alice Walker Banned; by Alice Walker
  • Beautiful and Dark; by Rosa Montero and Trans Adrienne Mitchell
  • Borderlands/La Frontera (Fourth Edition); by Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Call me Woman; by Ellen Kuzwayo
  • Cancer Journals; by Audre Lorde
  • flesh to bone; by ire'ne lara silva
  • Gulf Dreams; by Emma Perez
  • Haggadah; by Martha Shelley
  • Hot Chicken Wings; by Jyl Lynn Felman
  • Her; by Cherry Muhanji
  • The Issue is Power; by Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
  • My Jewish Face; by Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
  • Junglee Girl; by Ginu Kamani
  • Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing; by Lara Stapleton
  • Maidenhome; by Ding Xiaoqi
  • Me as her again; Nancy Agabian
  • Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story; by LeAnne Howe
  • The Storyteller with Nike Airs; by Kleya Forte-Escamilla
  • Shell Shaker; by LeAnne Howe
  • Send My Roots Rain; by Ibis Gomez-Vega
  • Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito; by Carmen de Monteflores
  • Teaching at the Crossroads; by Laurie Grobman
  • Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice, and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism; by Leela Fernandes
  • The Two Mujeres; by Sara Levi Calderon
  • Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School; by Jo Scott-Coe
  • The Way We Make Sense; by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
  • White Snake and Other Stories; by Geling Yan
  • The Woman Who Owned the Shadows; by Paula Gunn Allen

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; Eds. Norma E. Cantu, Christina L. Gutierrez, Norma Alarcón and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
  • El Mundo Zurdo 2;
  • El Mundo Zurdo 3;
  • Frontline Feminism; Ed. Karen Kahn
  • Good Girls Marry Doctors. Ed. Piyali Bhattacharya
  • Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, (2016), 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 was the 2004 - 2005 and the 2005 - 2006 Best of the Small Presses Award granted by Standards, an International Cultural Studies Magazine.

References
  1. "About Aunt Lute". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  2. Hoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN 1-884964-16-8, p134
  3. Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted
  4. Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-91376-4, p44
  5. "Aunt Lute Catalog - All Titles". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  6. "Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  7. "Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  8. UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, The California Feminist Presses Collection, 2004
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