FEMINIST PRESS CATALOG FALL 2019–SPRING 2020 CONTENTS 2 Fall 2019 Titles CONTACT INFORMATION 8 Spring 2020 Titles EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Jamia Wilson [email protected] 14 Amethyst Editions SENIOR EDITOR & FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER Lauren Rosemary Hook [email protected] 16 Backlist Highlights SENIOR SALES, MARKETING & PUBLICITY MANAGER Jisu Kim [email protected] 25 Rights & Permissions FIEBRE TROPICAL TABITHA AND MAGOO DRESS UP TOO A Novel Michelle Tea Juliana Delgado Lopera lllustrated by Ellis van der Does Uprooted from Bogotá into an ant-infested “Whether you know it or not, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” —DANIEL HANDLER Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church replete with abstinent salsa dancers and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca meets the magnetic Carmen: head of the youth group and the FIEBRE pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental TROPICAL health deteriorates, Francisca falls for Car- men and turns to Jesus to grow closer with her, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is an award-winning A NOVEL BY JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. “ Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all AMETHYST EDITIONS is a modern, queer imprint Tabitha and Magoo love to play dress up in MICHELLE TEA is the author of the novel triumphant in its presence.” founded by Michelle Tea. their room. Tabitha uses her brother’s shirts Black Wave and the nonfiction books Against Memoir and How to Grow Up, —DANIEL HANDLER to make superhero capes, and Magoo uses his sister’s frilly skirts to fashion gowns. among many others. She founded RADAR They’re disappointed to think they can’t go Productions and Drag Queen Story Hour, outside in their new outfits, but then the and lives in Los Angeles. drag queen Morgana magically appears! ELLIS VAN DER DOES is a Dutch illustrator With their new friend’s help, they learn to and designer living in London. defy restrictive gender roles and celebrate being themselves. The trio, dressed in color- AMETHYST EDITIONS is a modern, queer ful costumes and riding in a flying car, then imprint founded by Michelle Tea. heads to the local library for a diverse and fun-filled story time. March 2020 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-75-7 • 288 pages • Rights: World February 2020 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-77-1 • 48 pages • Rights: World 2 FALL 2019 FALL 2019 3 THE NOT WIVES THE LIVING DAYS Carley Moore Ananda Devi Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman Winner of a 2019 French Voices Award! The Not Wives traces the lives of three A chance encounter on Portobello Road “Gritty, sexy, very queer— up-all-night compelling.” “A magnificent gem.” —ANDREA LAWLOR women as they navigate the Occupy Wall incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction — JENNIFER CROFT A novel of sex-positive awakening he Not Wives traces the lives of TthreeStreet women as theymovement navigate the and one another: Stevie between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old British and burgeoning political resistance, Occupy Wall Street movement and set in Occupy-era New York City. one another. Stevie is a nontenured professoris anda mom nontenured in the middle professor and mom in the spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamai- of a divorce; her best friend Mel is a “ A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, bartender, torn between her long- and human frailty.” term girlfriendmiddle and a desire of to aexplore divorce; her best friend Mel is a can boy from Brixton. As dementia overtakes © AMY© TOUCHETTE —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenagerbartender,tryingtofindherway intornthe between her long-term girl- her reality, Mary clings to phantoms, latching “ A terrificliterarynovelaboutwhatitmeanstobelongtoyourselfwhile world, who bears shared witness to “ Beautifully written, visceral, and ecstatic. Unafraid, as trying to be a part of something bigger.” a tragedy that interlaces her life with angels might be, to bear witness to the force of entropy —INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW Stevie’s.friend and a desire to explore polyamory; and on to Cub and channelingpulling us all towardher death.” remaining —PRETI TANEJA, author of We That Are Young “ The Not Wives is not just for not wives—it’s for all of us struggling is the author of CARLEY MOORE with how to be human amid the ongoing clamor and bewilderment of In the Johannamidst of economic collapse is a and homeless teenager trying to find energy into their relationship. But their the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an twenty-first-centurylife.” classconflict,late-nighthookupsand chapbook Portal Poem, and the young complicated exes, these characters A unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a —LAURA SIMS adult novel The Stalker Chronicles. Her piece togetherher away new American in the world, who bears shared wit- macabre romance comesseventy-five-year-old to a horrific white British spinster,climax and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. As work has appeared in the American “ Carley Moore has created a landscape of achingly authentic female lives identity of resistance—against the dementia overtakes her reality, Mary clings to phan- Poetry Review, Brainchild, the Brooklyn that we rarely see given such literary treatment. A compulsively readable loomingshadowoffinancialprecarity, ness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with as white supremacy, poverty,toms, latching andon to Cub class and channeling con her remain- - Rail, the Journal of Popular Culture, and novel with deep roots in our gorgeous, messed-up world.” thegentrificationofNewYork,andthe ing energy into their relationship. But their macabre other publications. She is a clinical —MICHELLE TEA traditional role of wife. romance comes to a horrific climax as white suprem- professor of writing and contemporary Stevie’s. flict explode on the streetsacy, desperation, of London.and class conflict explode on the culture and creative production in “ I was in dire need of a queer, sex-positive mom in literature—and then streets of London. the Global Liberal Studies Program the gift of The Not Wives showed up. I couldn’t put this extraordinary The Living Days encapsulates Ananda Devi’s daring, at New York University and a senior book down.” —LYNN MELNICK unflinching talent and paints an unforgettable portrait associate at Bard College’s Institute In the midst of economic collapse and class ANANDA DEVI was born inof anMauritius increasingly nationalistic in metropolis. 1957 for Writing and Thinking. She lives in “ With seemingly effortless prose, Carley Moore paints a rich portrait of New York City. threedeeplycompellingwomennavigatingthepolaritiesandconfining conflict, late-night hookups and complicated and currently lives in France. She is the norms of modern-day life.” —ETAF RUM exes, these characters piece together a new award-winning author of thirteen novels as ISBN 978-1-936932-68-9 $17.95 US American identity of resistance—against the well as short stories and poetry. looming shadow of financial precarity, the ISBN 978-1-936932-70-2 $15.95 US JEFFREY ZUCKERMAN is digital editor of Music gentrification of New York, and the tradi- & Literature magazine. He also translated tional role of wife. Living_Days_full_cover.indd 1 8/7/19 12:48 PM Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins. “ Gritty, sexy, very queer—up-all-night “ A gorgeously written, profoundly CARLEY MOORE is the author of 16 Pills and compelling.” upsetting fairy tale of race, class, the young-adult novel The Stalker Chroni- power, and desire.” —ANDREA LAWLOR cles. She is a clinical professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at NYU and a senior —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writ- ing and Thinking. AMETHYST EDITIONS is a modern, queer imprint founded by Michelle Tea. September 2019 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-68-9 • 368 pages • Rights: US & Canada November 2019 • $15.95 • 978-1-936932-70-2 • 176 pages • Rights: US & Canada 4 FALL 2019 FALL 2019 5 I LOVE MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHING . DAUGHTER OF EARTH AND THEN AGAIN WHEN I AM LOOKING MEAN AND IMPRESSIVE Agnes Smedley A Zora Neale Hurston Reader Foreword by Alice Walker Edited by Alice Walker With a new introduction by Paola Mendoza During her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston This semiautobiographical account of an was praised for her writing but condemned early twentieth-century activist details grow- for her independence and audacity. Her ing up in rural poverty in farming settlements work fell into obscurity until the 1970s, and mining towns; discovering the double when Alice Walker rediscovered Hurston’s standards of race and sex among East Coast unmarked grave and anthologized her writ- intellectuals; facing false espionage charges; ing, establishing her as an intellectual and maintaining independence through two leader for future generations of black writ- tormented marriages. Groundbreaking in ers. A testament to the power and breadth its portrayal of sexism within the Leftist of Hurston’s oeuvre, featuring a new preface movement, Daughter of Earth was uniquely by Walker, the newest edition of this endur- prescient in its intersectional exploration ing text remains as vital as ever for readers of oppression, and endures as a necessary today. text for progressive and socialist movements today. ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891–1960) was a writer and anthropologist who became a AGNES SMEDLEY (1892–1950) was an Ameri- A Zora Neale Hurston Reader prominent figure in the Harlem Renais- can journalist and writer, well-known for her EDITED BY ALICE WALKER Introduction by Mary Helen Washington sance. Hurston is the author of the classic sympathetic chronicling of the Communist novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, as well forces in the Chinese Civil War.