Virtual Indie Publisher Panel

As part of Brazos Bookstore’s Summer of Indies(opens in a new tab) event series, join nine publishers from six beloved presses on a panel to celebrate Indie publishing!

Along with Center for the Art of Translation Executive Director and Two Lines Press Publisher Michael Holtmann, this panel will feature:

Anitra Budd and Erika Stevens from Coffee House Press(opens in a new tab)

Established in 1972 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Coffee House Press is an internationally renowned nonprofit publisher of literary fiction, essay, poetry, and other work that doesn’t fit neatly into established genre categories. CHP seeks to be the nation’s leading independent literary publisher and to demonstrate our vision for the future of literature through innovative off-the-page programming that broadens and deepens literature’s relevance to the world.

Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker from Dorothy, a Publishing Project(opens in a new tab)

Dorothy, a Publishing Project is an award-winning feminist press based in St. Louis and dedicated to publishing innovative works of fiction, near fiction, and writing about fiction. The press was founded and is run by Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker. Since 2010, Dorothy has published debuts, translations, and reprints by an array of international writers including Leonora Carrington, Nell Zink, Cristina Rivera Garza, Renee Gladman, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Sabrina Orah Mark, Nathalie Leger, and many more.

Will Evans from Deep Vellum(opens in a new tab)

Deep Vellum is a nonprofit publishing house and literary arts organization with the mission to bring the world into conversation through literature.

Adam Z. Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy from Transit Books(opens in a new tab)

Transit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature, based in Oakland, California. Founded in 2015, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities. Transit publishes a carefully curated list of award-winning literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, essay, and prose that falls somewhere in between. Transit authors include Jon Fosse, Esther Kinsky, Namwali Serpell, Andrés Barba, Maria Tumarkin, and Preti Taneja, have received or been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Booker Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, and more.

Eric Obenauf from Two Dollar Radio(opens in a new tab)

Two Dollar Radio is a family-run publisher of “books too loud to ignore,” founded in 2005 and based in Columbus, Ohio. Two Dollar Radio specializes in edgy fiction and topical contemporary non-fiction, and has published writers such as Hanif Abdurraqib, Scott McClanahan, Melanie Finn, and Grace Krilanovich, among many others. In 2017, they opened a bookstore/vegan cafe in Columbus called Two Dollar Radio Headquarters, and in 2020 they received the “Voice of the Heartland Award” from the Great Lakes and Midwest Independent Booksellers Associations.