Aunt Lute Books

In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[2]

Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another feminist publisher, in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute.[3] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non-profit publishing program.

In 1992, Spinsters Ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist Joan Drury and moved to Minneapolis.[2][4]

Aunt Lute continues to operate independently as a nonprofit to the present day.

Aunt Lute has published a number of high-profile feminist and lesbian authors, including Audre Lorde (The Cancer Journals), Gloria Anzaldúa (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza), Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, LeAnne Howe (Shell Shaker, winner of the 2002 Before Columbus American Book Award, and Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story), Alice Walker, and Paula Gunn Allen.

Call Me Woman, the autobiography of South African activist Ellen Kuzwayo, Radmila Manojlovic Zarkovic's anthology, I Remember: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees, and Cherry Muhanji's Lambda Award-winning novel Her have also been published by Aunt Lute.[5]

Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/Filipina American women writers[6] and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers,[7] as well as a number of translated texts.[8]

Other titles are listed below:

• A Simple Revolution; by Judy Grahn
• Alice Walker Banned; by Alice Walker
• Beautiful and Dark; by Rosa Montero and Trans Adrienne Mitchell
• Borderlands/La Frontera (Fourth Edition); by Gloria Anzaldúa
• Call me Woman; by Ellen Kuzwayo
• Cancer Journals; by Audre Lorde
• flesh to bone; by ire'ne lara silva
• Gulf Dreams; by Emma Perez
• Haggadah; by Martha Shelley
• Hot Chicken Wings; by Jyl Lynn Felman
• Her; by Cherry Muhanji
• The Issue is Power; by Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
• My Jewish Face; by Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz
• Junglee Girl; by Ginu Kamani
• Lowest Blue Flame Before Nothing; by Lara Stapleton
• Maidenhome; by Ding Xiaoqi
• Me as her again; Nancy Agabian
• Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story; by LeAnne Howe
• The Storyteller with Nike Airs; by Kleya Forte-Escamilla
• Shell Shaker; by LeAnne Howe
• Send My Roots Rain; by Ibis Gomez-Vega
• Singing Softly/Cantando Bajito; by Carmen de Monteflores
• Teaching at the Crossroads; by Laurie Grobman
• Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice, and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism; by Leela Fernandes
• The Two Mujeres; by Sara Levi Calderon
• Teacher at Point Blank: Confronting Sexuality, Violence, and Secrets in a Suburban School; by Jo Scott-Coe
• The Way We Make Sense; by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
• White Snake and Other Stories; by Geling Yan
• The Woman Who Owned the Shadows; by Paula Gunn Allen

• Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers" Eds. Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios
• City of One: Young Writers Speak to the World; by WritersCorps
• El Mundo Zurdo; Eds. Norma E. Cantu, Christina L. Gutierrez, Norma Alarcón and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz
• El Mundo Zurdo 2;
• El Mundo Zurdo 3;
• Frontline Feminism; Ed. Karen Kahn
• Good Girls Marry Doctors. Ed. Piyali Bhattacharya
• Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, (2016), Eds. ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera with an introduction by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
• Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras; Ed. Gloria Anzaldúa
• New Voices 1; by DeeAnne Davis, Rabie Harris, and Gloria Yamato
• Our Feet Walk the Sky; by Women of South Asian Descent Collective (WOSAD)
• Positive/Negative: Women of Color and HIV/AIDS; Eds. Imani Harrington and Chyrell Bellamy
• Radical Acts: Theatre and Feminist Pedagogies of Change; Eds. Anne Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Juhl
• Shadow on a Tightrope; Eds. Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser
• Solid Ground; by WritersCorps
• The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume One: 17th through 19th Centuries; Eds. Lisa Maria Hogeland and Mary Klages
• The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two; Eds. Lisa Maria Hogeland and Shay Brown
• The Judy Grahn Reader; By Judy Grahn
• The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993); Ed. Asha Kanwar
• Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers; Eds. Carolyn Dunn and Carol Comfort
• Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories by Contemporary Puerto Rican Women; Ed. Diana Velez

Aunt Lute Books was the 2004 - 2005 and the 2005 - 2006 Best of the Small Presses Award granted by Standards, an International Cultural Studies Magazine.

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