Autumn House Press

Autumn House Press is an independent, non-profit literary publishing company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Launched in 1998, the press publishes books of poetry and fiction. It also publishes "Coal Hill Review", an online poetry magazine; sponsors two national literary contests; collaborates with Pittsburgh community venues to present The Autumn House Master Authors Reading Series; and in partnership with the International Poetry Forum, manages Poets-In-Person, a poets-in-the-schools program.

Michael Simms is founder of the press and serves as Executive Editor. He is a poet who has taught at the University of Iowa, Southern Methodist University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Duquesne University; he presently teaches in the Chatham University Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Richard (Rick) St. John, a poet, is Executive Director of the press. He received degrees in English from Princeton University and the University of Virginia. In 2002, he completed a mid-career Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University.

External links

* [http://www.autumnhouse.org/index.cfm?method=displayPage&pagename=home Autumn House Press Homepage]