| Parent company | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| Founded | 1936 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Distribution | Chicago Distribution Center (US)[1] Eurospan Group (EMEA) East-West Export Books (Asia and the Pacific) |
| Publication types | Books, academic journals |
| Imprints | Terrace Books |
| No. of employees | 25 |
| Official website | uwpress |
TheUniversity of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated asUW Press) is anon-profituniversity press publishingpeer-reviewed books and journals. It publishes work by scholars from the global academic community; works of fiction, memoir and poetry under its imprint, Terrace Books; and serves the citizens of Wisconsin by publishing important books about Wisconsin, theUpper Midwest, and theGreat Lakes region.
UW Press annually awards theBrittingham Prize in Poetry, the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry,[2] and The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry.[3]
The press was founded in 1936 inMadison and is one of more than 120 member presses in theAssociation of University Presses.[4] The Journals Division was established in 1965. The press employs approximately 25 full and part-time staff, produces 40 to 60 new books a year, and publishes 13 journals.[5] It also distributes books and some annual journals for selected smaller publishers. The press is a unit of the Graduate School of theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison and serves the university's overall mission of research, instruction, and outreach beyond the university.
Since its first book appeared in 1937, the press has published and distributed more than 3,000 titles. The press has more than 1,400 titles currently in print, including:
In 2003, the press acquired the publishing companyPopular Press, which specialized in works onpopular culture.[6]
Notable authors published by the University of Wisconsin Press includeRigoberto González,Edmund White,Lucy Jane Bledsoe,Olena Kalytiak Davis,Alden Jones,Lesléa Newman,Trebor Healey,Floyd Skloot,Kelly Cherry,Jorie Graham, andMichael Carroll. The press has also published new editions and translations of work byIsaac Bashevis Singer,Leo Tolstoy, andDjuna Barnes.
Books and authors published by the press have won The American Book Award from theBefore Columbus Foundation, theLambda Literary Award, theSue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction,[7]Independent Publisher Book Awards,[8] NEA Literature Fellowships, theGuggenheim Fellowship,[9]Publishing Triangle Awards, and other honors.
University of Wisconsin Press joined TheAssociation of American Publishers trade organization in theHachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit that found that theInternet Archive committedcopyright infringement, which resulted in the removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers.[10][11]
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