Sarabande Books
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Sarabande Books is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1994, and located in Louisville, Kentucky
, publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
The press was co-founded by Sarah Gorham
(President and Editor-in-Chief) and Jeffrey Skinner
(Chair). According to a CLMP Newswire interview, "The press was named after an Aztec mating dance that was later adopted and banned in Spain and finally made respectable in Britain. Its mission, according to Gorham, is to publish poetry and fiction and to disburse the works of its authors 'with diligence and creativity.' The press also serves as an educational resource to teachers and creative writing students." The press publishes the winners of its national poetry and fiction competitions, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission.
Sarabande Books titles are distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution. The press has received grants from the Kentucky Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts
, and private foundations.
Notable authors published by Sarabande Books include Ralph Angel
, Mark Jarman
, Cleopatra Mathis
, Frank Bidart
, Louise Glück
, Gerald Stern
, Sallie Bingham
, Alice Fulton
, Cate Marvin
, Rick Barot, Ann Townsend, James Kimbrell
, Alyce Miller
, Joan Silber
, Brian Leung, Lia Purpura
, and Brenda Miller.
Authors have been recipients of many awards including the Whiting Foundation Award, the PEN USA Award in Poetry, the Norma Farber First Book Award
, the Pushcart Prize, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Fellowships, and numerous other honors.
Sarabande Books titles have been reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Nation, American Book Review, and many other publications.
Awards given by Sarabande Books include The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
, publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
The press was co-founded by Sarah Gorham
Sarah Gorham
Sarah Gorham is an American poet, writer and publisher.She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College....
(President and Editor-in-Chief) and Jeffrey Skinner
Jeffrey Skinner
Jeffrey Skinner is an American poet, writer, playwright, and professor of Creative Writing at the University of Louisville.His most recent collection of poetry is Salt Water Amnesia,...
(Chair). According to a CLMP Newswire interview, "The press was named after an Aztec mating dance that was later adopted and banned in Spain and finally made respectable in Britain. Its mission, according to Gorham, is to publish poetry and fiction and to disburse the works of its authors 'with diligence and creativity.' The press also serves as an educational resource to teachers and creative writing students." The press publishes the winners of its national poetry and fiction competitions, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission.
Sarabande Books titles are distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution. The press has received grants from the Kentucky Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
, and private foundations.
Notable authors published by Sarabande Books include Ralph Angel
Ralph Angel
Ralph Angel is an American poet and translator. Raised in Seattle, Washington, Angel attended inner-city public schools there, then worked on freight trains for the Union Pacific Railroad as he earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Washington. Later he received a Master of Fine Arts...
, Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman
Mark F. Jarman is an American poet and critic often identified with the New Narrative branch of the New Formalism; he was co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper throughout the 1980s...
, Cleopatra Mathis
Cleopatra Mathis
Cleopatra Mathis is an American poet who since 1982 has been the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the English department at Dartmouth College, where she is also director of the Creative Writing Program...
, Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart is an American academic and poet.-Biography:In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop...
, Louise Glück
Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
, Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...
, Sallie Bingham
Sallie Bingham
Sallie Bingham is an American author, playwright, poet, teacher, feminist activist, and philanthropist.Sallie Bingham’s first novel was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1961. It was followed by four collections of short stories; her latest, published by Sarabande Books in October 2011, is titled...
, Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.- Biography :Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school...
, Cate Marvin
Cate Marvin
-Life:She graduated from Marlboro College, University of Houston, University of Iowa, and University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D.She teaches at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York and in spring 2010 will be teaching at Columbia University....
, Rick Barot, Ann Townsend, James Kimbrell
James Kimbrell
-Life:He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with an M.A., from University of Virginia with an MFA, and from University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri with a Ph.D...
, Alyce Miller
Alyce Miller
Alyce Miller is an award-winning American writer who currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana.- Biography :She was born in Zurich, Switzerland and lived "most of her life" in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, she lives in Bloomington, Indiana....
, Joan Silber
Joan Silber
Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of Household Words , which won a PEN/Hemingway Award, and Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories , which was a finalist for both the 2004 National Book Award and the Story Prize...
, Brian Leung, Lia Purpura
Lia Purpura
Lia Purpura is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of three collections of poems , two collections of essays and one collection of translations...
, and Brenda Miller.
Authors have been recipients of many awards including the Whiting Foundation Award, the PEN USA Award in Poetry, the Norma Farber First Book Award
Norma Farber First Book Award
The Norma Farber First Book Award is given by the Poetry Society of America "for a first book of original poetry written by an American and published in either a hard or soft cover in a standard edition during the calendar year"....
, the Pushcart Prize, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Guggenheim Fellowships, and numerous other honors.
Sarabande Books titles have been reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Nation, American Book Review, and many other publications.
Awards given by Sarabande Books include The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Sources
- Sarabande Books Website > Various Pages
- Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses > Various Pages