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Women in Independent Publishing is a book of interviews with and resources about women actively engaged in small-press publishing between the 1950s and the 1980s. The interviewees include Hettie Jones, Bernadette Mayer, Barbara Smith, and many others. The book illuminates the unifying and diverging elements between multiple publishing “scenes,” revealing their particularities and commonalities, and showcases the variety of types of publishing possible within the small press community. Women in Independent Publishing is a timely and urgent documentation of literary history and reveals and celebrates the multifaceted roles of women and non-binary editors and publishers and the communities they built during these years. This roundtable celebrates the publication of Women in Independent Publishing. The book's editor, Stephanie Anderson, will moderate a conversation between interviewees Jaime Robles, co-editor of Five Trees Press (1973-78, San Francisco), Lee Ann Brown, editor and publisher of Tender Buttons Press (1989-present, New York), and MC Hyland, founding editor of Double Cross Press (2008-present), who contributed an afterword to the book.
