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Wayne Franklin, series editor
The American Land and Life Series is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of North American cultural and natural regions. Since its establishment in 1990, it has featured two general kinds of books: those which, like Richard Francaviglia’s Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America’s Historic Mining Districts and John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle’s Signs in America:Signatures of Landscape and Place, focus scholarly attention on a neglected sector of the American scene and those which, like Joe C. Truett’s Circling Back: Chronicle of a Texas River Valley and Don Scheese’s Mountains of Memory: A Fire Lookout’s Life in the River of No Return Wilderness, bring a critical perspective to bear on landscape through the exploration of personal experience. Landscape, as the three-dimensional record of human impact on the earth, is the unifying focus of the series. We welcome inquiries from writers eager to promote innovative approaches to understanding, portraying, and writing about space and place in a North American context.
Please send inquiries and proposals to the series editor: Wayne Franklin, University of Connecticut, wayne.franklin@uconn.edu.
Recognizing the richness of our midwestern heritage, the original and reprinted Bur Oak Books, named after the state tree of Iowa, represent the Press’s dedication to preserving the literature, history, geography, and culture of our region. Bur Oak Guides assist your exploration and enjoyment of the natural environment of the Midwest.
Please send inquiries and proposals to Holly Carver, Director, holly-carver@uiowa.edu.
Alan Golding, Lynn Keller, & Adalaide Morris, series editors
This series documents, analyzes, and seeks to sustain the many exciting and diverse developments in North American poetry since the 1950s by publishing critical studies of recent poetry, collections of essays on poetics, and biographies of individual poets or groups of poets as well as correspondence and memoirs. Its aim is to represent a variety of contemporary aesthetics and to illuminate ongoing debates about the material forms and contexts of recent poetry.
Advisory Board
Charles Altieri, University of California-Berkeley
Alfred Arteaga, University of California-Berkeley
Bonnie Costello, Boston University
Michael Davidson, University of California-San Diego
Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University
Thomas Gardner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
William J. Harris, University of Kansas
Linda A. Kinnahan, Duquesne University
Aldon Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University (emerita)
Robert von Hallberg, University of Chicago
Please send inquiries and proposals to the series editors: Alan Golding, University of Louisville, alan.golding@louisville.edu; Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, rlkeller@wisc.edu; and Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa, dee-morris@uiowa.edu.
The Iowa Poetry Prize was first awarded in 1990. Originally called the Edwin Ford Piper Poetry Award, the series was renamed with the 1993 award. Until 2001, the award honored only writers who had already published at least one book of poetry; the award is now open to new writers as well. Books in this series have also won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Please see the guidelines for more information.
The Iowa Short Fiction Award has been presented annually since 1969. In 1998 the University of Iowa Press instituted the John Simmons Short Fiction Award—named after the first director of the Press—to complement the ongoing award series. Both national competitions are juried through the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Serious critical consideration is guaranteed by such final judges as Alison Lurie, Raymond Carver, Marilynne Robinson, James Salter, Kevin Brockmeier, and Ethan Canin.
Please see the guidelines for more information.
David E. Schoonover, series editor
For twenty-five years Louis Szathmáry, renowned chef and owner of the famed Bakery Restaurant in Chicago, selected and cared for a unique cookbook collection eventually numbering more than 20,000 items. This magnificent collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries. The University of Iowa Press, in conjunction with the University of Iowa Libraries, publishes reprints, new editions, and translations of important cookbooks from the vast collection. This series is not currently accepting submissions.
Ed Folsom, series editor
Walt Whitman tapped into American culture in surprising ways to construct a radical new kind of writing. Books in this series celebrate and explore his influence on modern and contemporary writers in America and around the world.
Please send inquiries and proposals to Holly Carver, Director, holly-carver@uiowa.edu.
Mark Levine & Ben Doyle, series editors
Like the historic stone building, home of the University of Iowa Press, from which this series draws its name, the Kuhl House Poets combine the best of dedicated craft and contemporary vision. This provocative series reawakens readers to a fresh consideration of the possibilities of language and feeling by publishing work that is formally and verbally inventive, adventurous work that takes its own path outside established routes of either traditions or experimental poetry.
Please send inquiries and proposals to Holly Carver, Director, holly-carver@uiowa.edu.
Patricia Hampl & Carl H. Klaus, series editors
Specializing in exceptional literary nonfiction, the titles in this series range from cultural commentary, nature writing, and historical inquiry to meditation, memoir, and the personal essay by emerging as well as established authors. In Klaus’s words, “Sightline Books is a series of works that embody the richly varied knowledge, artfully crafted prose, and compelling authorial presence that characterize the most engaging contemporary nonfiction.”
Please send inquiries and proposals to Holly Carver, Director, holly-carver@uiowa.edu.
Albert E. Stone, series editor
Edited by a distinguished scholar of autobiography, this series includes life stories of so-called ordinary Americans who, though not necessarily known to the general public, freshly recreated representative pasts and reimagined singular identities. This series is no longer accepting submissions.
Thomas Postlewait, series editor
This series, which publishes scholarship on the historical contexts of theatre and cultural performance, features a full spectrum of historical methods and perspectives. Topics range from ancient Greek theatre to the American chautauqua, Shakespeare to marionettes, ritual theories of performance to theatre historiography, the theatrical event to the national theatre history, theatricality to antitheatricality. Leading scholars from many countries, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Israel, India, and Australia, have published in the series. Books in the series have won many awards, including the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research, the Theatre Book Award of the Society for Theatre Research, the Research Award in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Joe A. Callaway Prize, and the George Freedley Award from the Theatre Library Association.
Please send inquiries and proposals to Holly Carver, Director, holly-carver@uiowa.edu.
Joel Myerson, series editor
Providing the best first-hand accounts—published and unpublished, adulatory and critical—written by both famous and forgotten contemporaries, this series makes the lives of American writers better understood and more accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
Please send inquiries and proposals to the series editor: Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina, MyersonJ@gwm.sc.edu.
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