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] 16 Amethyst Editions 19 Backlist Highlights 29 Rights & Permissions THE FEMINIST PRESS 365 Fifth Avenue | Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 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 works 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 currently seeking political and ignite movements and social transformation. cultural activist nonfiction that furthers our Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent understanding of intersectional feminism. We and marginalized voices from around the gravitate toward voice- and vision-driven stories world to build a more just future. as well as genre-defying texts. Other topics of interest include feminist dystopia, environmental VISION justice, and immigration stories. We do not To create a world where everyone publish poetry, dramatic works, doctoral recognizes themselves in a book. dissertations, or 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 SARAH BOOKER is a Spanish-to-English translator “ A lucid, poignant collection of essays Zucker’s beautiful pages. A must read.” about the complexities of our lives. and PhD candidate at the University of North and poetry.” —LORI GOTTLIEB JESSICA ZUCKER is a clinical psychologist who spe- Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her translations have —NEW YORK TIMES 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. On the brink of presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there’s never heart, nuance, and radiant joy.” hashimoto —T KIRA MADDEN adulthood, both full of possibility and big ideas, been a better time to fight for justice. Respond- “Smart, honest, compassionate, emily they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years later, ing to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement and tender, A World Between is a novel of love and liberation.” —LISA KO Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San 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 Francisco—grown and changed, and each sep- hookers and prostitutes, strippers and dancers, actors were two queer Asian women.” —ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN arately partnered—and find themselves, once porn stars, cam models, Dommes and subs alike— “A generational breakthrough.” —SARAH SCHULMAN again, irresistibly pulled back together. complicate narratives of sexual harassment and violence, and expand conversations often limited n 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and Emily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly captures 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 the wonder and confusion of growing up in millen- later, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco, and the two find themselves irre - nial America. In sparkling prose, she follows two 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 immigrant women as they navigate family, female erhood, and toxic masculinity, We Too gives voice fraught history—unfolding into a new kind of love story for a millennial, immigrant America. friendship, and their own fraught history. to the fight for agency and accountability across sex industries. With contributions by leading voices EMILY HASHIMOTO is a queer writer of color from the 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 suburbs of New Jersey. Her non fiction writing has FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Ceyenne Doroshow, Audacia Ray, femi babylon, appeared in the Rumpus and Bitch magazine. She April Flores, and Yin Q, this anthology explores sex lives in New York City. work as work, and sex workers as laboring subjects A_World_Between_full_cover.indd 1 6/23/20 10:05 AM 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 writer, educa- narratives about sex worker —O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE tor, and former professional dominatrix. Her writ- experiences we too often hear.” ing on sex work, kink, and queer culture can be —MELISSA FEBOS found in Salon, Autostraddle, 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.