Contents 1 Publishing history 2 Titles 3 Awards 4 See also 5 External links 6 References

Aunt Lute Books is a multicultural feminist press with a mandate to publish and distribute "culturally diverse writing expressing the complexity of lesbian and women's lives."^[1] The publisher has a stated aim to embrace the opportunity to work with and support first-time authors.^[2]

[edit] Publishing history

In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.^[3]

Aunt Lute merged with another feminist publisher, Spinsters Ink in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute.^[4] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non profit publishing program, and in 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.^[3][5]

Aunt Lute continues to operate on its own to the present day.

[edit] Titles

Aunt Lute has published a number of high profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe, 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 all been published by Aunt Lute.^[6]

[edit] Awards

Aunt Lute Books was the 2004 - 2005 and the 2005 - 2006 Best of the Small Presses Award granted by Standards, an International Cultural Studies Magazine.

[edit] See also

Spinsters Ink

[edit] External links

• Aunt Lute Books

[edit] References