The Press Acquires New and Backlist Eastern Washington University Press Titles

Carnegie Mellon University Press has recently acquired the stock of Eastern Washington University Press, which ceased operations on June 30 of this year. Negotiations for the transfer of books began nearly one year ago with Carnegie Mellon acting to keep more than 100 titles in print.

Eastern Washington University Press, founded in the late 1970s, had gained prominence as a publisher of literary titles, producing books of poetry and short fiction along with nonfiction focusing on themes pertinent to the inland Northwest. The Surfacing of Excess by poet Arianne Zwertjes, EWU's final book produced in May, will be advertised with the current Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. Among the authors who have written and edited books on the Eastern Washington list are Dorianne Laux, Carolyn Kizer, Peter Everwine, Tess Gallagher, Sascha Feinstein, Christopher Buckley, Paisley Rekdal, Joseph Millar, Kathy Fagan, Michael Heffernan, Jim Daniels, Philip Dacey, and Robert Bly.

The Carnegie Mellon staff is currently cataloging and processing the Eastern Washington titles and placing them with the Press' distributor, Cornell University Press Services of Ithaca, New York. The first fifteen titles will become available from Cornell by October 1. An additional twenty titles will become available weekly until all are listed.

See the list of EWU books currently being offered by the Press here.

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Last fall, Carnegie Mellon University Press released The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century, a book by Brian O'Neill that gives a hopeful and heartfelt account of why Pittsburgh is like no other city in America. Less than a year later, The Paris of Appalachia has become the fastest-selling book in the press' 35-year history.

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