Spinsters Ink

Spinsters Ink

Infobox_Company
company_name = Spinsters Ink
company_
company_type = Corporation
foundation = 1978
location = Tallahassee, United States
key_people = Publisher Linda Hill, Supervising Editor Katherine V. Forrest
num_employees =
industry = Publishing
products = Women's fiction books
revenue = N/A
homepage = [http://www.spinstersink.com/ SpinstersInk.com]

Founded in Upstate New York in 1978 by Maureen Brady and Judith McDaniel, Spinsters Ink is one of the oldest Lesbian Feminist publishers in the world. It is currently owned by publisher Linda Hill, who purchased the Spinsters Ink in 2005. [Press Release: "Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On", March 1, 2005 quoted [http://www.spinsters-ink.com/ ] ] . Hill also owns Bella Books and [http://www.beanpolebooks.net/ Beanpole Books] . tocleft

History

Spinsters Ink was founded by Brady and McDaniel and moved to San Francisco in 1982, where it was purchased by Sherry Thomas. [Hoshino, Edith S. "Feminist Publishing", in "International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia" editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134]

The early history of Spinsters Ink is closely tied up with that of another feminist publisher, Aunt Lute Books. [Press Release: "Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On", March 1, 2005 quoted [http://www.spinsters-ink.com/ ] ] . Spinsters Ink merged in San Francisco with Aunt Lute Book Company in 1986, to form Spinsters/Aunt Lute. The Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non profit publishing program in 1990, and the two companies separated again. In 1992 Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis. [Hoshino, Edith S. "Feminist Publishing", in "International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia" editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134] [Young, Stacey. "Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement", Routledge, 1996, ISBN:0415913764, p44]

In 2001 Spinsters Ink moved to Denver, Colorado under Sharon Silvas, who brought back into print the classic Feminist Utopian novel, The Wanderground by Sally Miller Gearhart [ [http://www.spinsters-ink.com/news.htm Spinsters Ink ] ] . The press is currently owned by Linda Hill, and employs Katherine V. Forrest as editorial supervisor [ [http://www.spinsters-ink.com/news.htm Spinsters Ink ] ] .

Titles

Spinsters Ink has published many well-known women authors, including Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Paula Gunn Allen, Elana Dykewomon, Judy Grahn, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Val McDermid, and Cherrie Moraga. It has released several Lambda Literary Award winning books, such as "Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?", "Two-Bit Tango", and "Cancer in Two Voices", as well as the bestselling "Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism". [Hoshino, Edith S. "Feminist Publishing", in "International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia" editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN:1884964168, p134] . It received a Publisher Service Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation.

Current writers include Lambda Literary Award winners Julia Watts and Katherine Forrest. Sheila Ortiz-Taylor continues to publish with Spinsters Ink. Its current catalog includes general, dramatic and genre fiction for women and lesbians [ [http://www.spinstersink.com/authors.htm] Spinsters Ink current catalog and publishing philosophy] .

ee also

*Aunt Lute Books
*Bella Books

References

External links

* [http://www.spinsters-ink.com Spinsters Ink]


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