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| Founded | 1982 |
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| Founder | Barb Wieser andJoan Pinkvoss |
| Headquarters location | San Francisco, CA |
| Distribution | Small Press Distribution |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Feminist literature |
| Official website | auntlute |
Aunt Lute Books is an Americanmulticulturalfeminist press based inSan Francisco, California. The publisher also seeks to work with and support first-time authors.[1]
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss inIowa.[2]
Aunt Lute merged withSpinsters Ink, anotherfeminist publisher, in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years inSan Francisco under the nameSpinsters/Aunt Lute.[3] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non-profit publishing program.[citation needed]
In 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased bylesbian feministphilanthropistJoan Drury and moved toMinneapolis.[2][4]
Aunt Lute continues to operate independently as a nonprofit to the present day.[citation needed]
Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profilefeminist andlesbian authors, includingAudre 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, andMiko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story),Alice Walker, andPaula Gunn Allen.
Call Me Woman, the autobiography ofSouth African activistEllen Kuzwayo, Radmila Manojlovic Zarkovic's anthology,I Remember: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees, andCherry Muhanji'sLambda Award-winning novelHer have also been published by Aunt Lute.[5]
Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/Filipina American women writers[6] and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers,[7] as well as a number of translated texts.[8]
Other titles are listed below:
Aunt Lute Books won the 2004-2005 and the 2005-2006 Best of the Small Presses Award, granted byStandards, an internationalcultural studies magazine.[9]
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