A Milkweed Chronicle: The Formative Years of a Literary Nonprofit Press

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The formative years of Milkweed Editions a story told by its cofounder. In the 1970s and 80s, as major New York publishing houses were consolidating and growing ever larger, small nonprofit presses and journals emerged.

With a variety of missions, literary, social, political, these small publishers shared a desire to prioritize quality over quantity. One was Milkweed Chronicle, the literary and visual arts journal launched in 1980 by writer Emilie Buchwald and artist R.W. Scholes in Minneapolis that would become Milkweed Editions

A Milkweed Chronicleis the first-person account by cofounder Emilie Buchwald of how the journal morphed into an award-winning nonprofit literary press. It is the story of writers who established Milkweeds reputation for excellence in poetry, fiction, and nonfictionand especially, by the mid-1990s, in books about the natural world. And it is also the story of the editors and staff who established and first achieved Milkweeds mission of publishing transformative literature.

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"Anyone who wants a complete library of the history of the arts in Minnesota needs Buchwald's book . . . Perfect for holiday giving." --Mary Ann Grossman, St. Paul Pioneer Press

Author Bio

Emilie Buchwald, PhD, was the founding copublisher and editor of Milkweed Chronicle and Milkweed Editions. She is the founding publisher, now copublisher, and editor of The Gryphon Press, childrens picture books celebrating the human-animal bond. Books she has edited have received more than two hundred awards and recognitions. Buchwalds book of poems, The Moments Only Moment, is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award winner. She was editor of the Poetry Society of Americas Wallace Stevens Centenary Celebration publication and the coeditor of three poetry anthologies. She is the author of two childrens novels, Floramel and Esteban (William Allen White Childrens Book Master List) and Gildaen (Best Childrens Book of the Year, Ages 912, Chicago Tribune Book Festival Award), and of two childrens picture books under the name Daisy Bix: At the Dog Park with Sam and Lucy and Buddy Unchained (Henry Bergh Award, Best Childrens Picture Book of the Year, and HSUS KIND Award, Best Childrens Picture Book of the Year). Buchwald is a recipient of the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, the Kay Sexton Award, the A.P. Anderson Award, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota, and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. Emilie and her husband, Henry, live in Minneapolis.