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Aunt Lute Books is an American multicultural feminist press based in San Francisco, California. The publisher also seeks to work with and support first-time authors.
Publishing history
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.
Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another feminist publisher, in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute. In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non-profit publishing program.
In 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.
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 have also been published by Aunt Lute.
Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/Filipina American women writers and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers, as well as a number of translated texts.
Other titles are listed below:
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
The 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 by 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; El Mundo Zurdo, 2; El Mundo Zurdo, 3, eds. Norma E. Cantu, Christina L. Gutierrez, Norma Alarcón and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
Frontline Feminism, ed. Karen Kahn
Good Girls Marry Doctors, ed. Piyali Bhattacharya
Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, 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 won the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 Best of the Small Presses Award, granted by Standards, an international cultural studies magazine.
External links
Aunt Lute Books
See also
Feminist literature
Feminist bookstores
Lesbian literature