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FEMINIST PRESS CATALOG FALL 2020–SPRING 2021 CONTENTS 2 CONTACT INFORMATION Mission & Vision Statements EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PUBLISHER Jamia Wilson [email protected] 4 Fall 2020 Titles SENIOR EDITOR & FOREIGN RIGHTS MANAGER Lauren Rosemary Hook [email protected] 11 SENIOR SALES, MARKETING & PUBLICITY MANAGER Spring 2021 Titles Jisu Kim [email protected] 18 Amethyst Editions 21 Backlist Highlights 31 Rights & Permissions THE FEMINIST PRESS 365 Fifth Avenue | Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 +1 (212) 817–7915 EDITORIAL VISION The Feminist Press publishes twelve to fifteen books a year and specializes in an array of genres including cutting-edge fiction, activist nonfiction, literature in translation, hybrid memoirs, children’s books, and more. FP seeks to champion intersectional and nuanced works that spark much-needed dialogue and move the feminist conversation forward. Current editorial initiatives include the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, created to highlight debut work by women and nonbinary writers of color, and Amethyst Editions, a queer imprint founded by Michelle Tea. MISSION The Feminist Press publishes books that We are seeking political and cultural activist ignite movements and social transformation. nonfiction that furthers our understanding of Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent intersectional feminism. We gravitate toward and marginalized voices from around the voice- and vision-driven stories as well as genre- world to build a more just future. defying texts. Other topics of interest include feminist dystopia, environmental justice, and VISION immigration stories. We do not publish poetry, To create a world where everyone dramatic works, doctoral dissertations, or recognizes themselves in a book. literary criticism. 2 MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS 3 I HAD A MISCARRIAGE GRIEVING A Memoir, A Movement Dispatches from a Wounded Country Jessica Zucker Cristina Rivera Garza Foreword by Latham Thomas Translated by Sarah Booker Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psy- Grieving is Cristina Rivera Garza’s hybrid collec- chologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, tion of short crónicas,Can writing, injournalism, fact, be something and that personal “ Grieving is a major reckoning with violence in contemporary acts against fear or terror? Mexico, and its relevance, like the causes of the crisis, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mex- extends far beyond the border. A brilliant work.” —RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ “ A probing meditation on the violence being waged on the poor, in reproductive and maternal mental health, was ico. Drawing togethermarginalized, overlooked,horror and theory downtrodden andin Mexico historical and the borderlands. Cristina Rivera Garza dissects the misnamed drug war, rendered corporeal, no longer just theoretical. analysis, she outlinesthe epidemic ofhow femicides neoliberalism,and misogyny, the capitalistic wrecking corrup - ball, the Gadarene charge of climate change, and the scourge of pandemic. At once a gorgeous elegy, a clarion call to action, and a She now had a changed perspective on her life’s tion, and drug trafficking—culminatingrevindication of the human spirit.” in the mis- work, her patients’ pain, and the crucial need for named “war on —JOHNdrugs”—has WASHINGTON, The Dispossessedshaped her country. “ Laying bare the foundations of state violence and collective trauma a zeitgeist shift. Navigating this nascent transition Working from andwhile alsoagainst imploring its readersthis to imagine political the world we wantcontext, to live in, Grieving is the perfect book to accompany us through these amid her own grief became a catalyst for Jessica Rivera Garza positsuncertain thattimes.” collective grief is an act —ROSA ALCALÁ, Undocumentaries to bring voice to this ubiquitous experience. She of resistance against state violence, and that writ- “ A bold, luminous collection from Mexico’s most impressive essayist embarked on a mission to upend the strident tri- ing is a powerfuland mode writer.” of seeking social justice. —LINA MERUANE, Seeing Red fecta of silence, shame, and stigma that surrounds CRISTINA RIVERA “GARZA Sarah Booker’s is translation an recreatesaward-winning the urgency of Rivera Garza’s writer, reproductive loss—and the result is her striking prose with exceptional vitality.” poet, translator,—IDRA and NOVEY, critic. Those Who KnewThe recipient of the memoir meets manifesto. Roger Caillois and the Anna Seghers Prizes, she Drawing from her psychological expertise and her is the only two-time winner of the Sor Juana Inés ISBN 978-1-936932-93-1 $16.95 US work as the creator of the #IHadaMiscarriage cam- de la Cruz Prize.THE She FEMINIST is PRESScurrently a distinguished AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK paign, I Had a Miscarriage is a heart-wrenching, professor of HispanicFEMINISTPRESS.ORG studies at the University of thought-provoking book—an urgent reminder of Houston. “ There are lessons on grief for all of us in the power of speaking openly and unapologetically Zucker’s beautiful pages. A must read.” SARAH BOOKER is a Spanish-to-English translator “ A compelling work of social criticism about the complexities of our lives. —LORI GOTTLIEB and PhD candidate at the University of North that speaks to a desperate time.” JESSICA ZUCKER is a clinical psychologist who spe- Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her translations have —KIRKUS REVIEWS cializes in women’s reproductive and maternal appeared in the Paris Review, Asymptote, and the mental health. In 2014 Zucker launched the viral Brooklyn Rail, among others. #IHadaMiscarriage campaign in her first New York Times piece. Her writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, and TIME, and she has been featured on NPR, Good Morning America, and CNN. She lives in Los Angeles. March 2021 • $18.95 • 978-1-55861-288-4 • 240 pages • Rights: US & Canada October 2020 • $16.95 • 978-1-936932-93-1 • 192 pages • Rights: US & Canada 4 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 5 A WORLD BETWEEN WE TOO Emily Hashimoto Essays on Sex Work and Survival Edited by Natalie West, with Tina Horn Foreword by Selena the Stripper In 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and This collection of narrative essays by sex workers “ A celebration of identity, queer love, messy families, and the ferocity of want. I love this book’s expansive Leena Shah meet in an elevator. Both girls are presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there’s never heart, nuance, and radiant joy.” hashimoto —T KIRA MADDEN on the brink of adulthood, each full of possibility been a better time to fight for justice. Respond- “Smart, honest, compassionate, emily and big ideas, and they fall into a brief whirlwind ing to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement and tender, A World Between is a novel of love and liberation.” —LISA KO romance. Years later, Eleanor and Leena col- in 2017, sex workers from across the industry— A WORLD BETWEEN A WORLD “A sweet and funny take on love and growing up: imagine a classic rom-com, if the lead lide on the streets of San Francisco—grown and hookers and prostitutes, strippers and dancers, actors were two queer Asian women.” —ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN changed, and each separately partnered—and find porn stars, cam models, Dommes and subs alike— “A generational breakthrough.” —SARAH SCHULMAN themselves, once again, irresistibly pulled back complicate narratives of sexual harassment and together. violence, and expand conversations often limited n 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. On the brink to normative workplaces. I of adulthood, both full of possibility and big ideas, they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years Emily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly captures later, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco, and the two find themselves irre - the wonder and confusion of growing up in millen- Writing across topics such as homelessness, moth- sistibly pulled back together. A World Between follows two women as they navigate family, female friendship, and their own nial America. In sparkling prose, she follows two erhood, and toxic masculinity, We Too gives voice fraught history—unfolding into a new kind of love story for a millennial, immigrant America. immigrant women as they navigate family, female to the fight for agency and accountability across friendship, and their own fraught history. sex industries. With contributions by leading voices ISBN 978-1-936932-95-5 $17.95 US in the movement such as Melissa Gira Grant, THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK EMILY HASHIMOTO is a queer writer of color from the FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Ceyenne Doroshow, Audacia Ray, femi babylon, suburbs of New Jersey. Her non fiction writing has April Flores, and Yin Q, this anthology explores sex appeared in the Rumpus and Bitch magazine. She work as work, and sex workers as laboring subjects A_World_Between_full_cover.indd 1 6/23/20 10:05 AM lives in New York City. in need of respect—not rescue. “ A sweetly poignant look at the “ A welcome antidote to the reductive transformative power of young love.” NATALIE WEST is a Los Angeles–based professional narratives about sex worker —O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE Dominatrix. Her writing on sex work, kink, and experiences we too often hear.” queer culture can be found in Salon, Autostraddle, —MELISSA FEBOS and Kink Academy. TINA HORN hosts and produces the kink podcast Why Are People into That?! She is based in Brooklyn. September 2020 • $17.95 • 978-1-936932-95-5 • 440 pages • Rights: US & Canada February 2021 • $24.95 • 978-1-55861-285-3 • 328 pages • Rights: World 6 FALL 2020 FALL 2020 7 THE ECHOING IDA COLLECTION THE LIVING IS EASY Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi Dorothy West Foreword by Michelle Duster Foreword by Morgan Jerkins Afterword by Adelaide M. Cromwell The Black women and nonbinary writers of the This first novel by Dorothy West was one of only a Echoing Ida collective harness the power of media handful to be published by Black women during for justice.