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Award-winning author Midge Raymond and John Yunker are the cofounders and editors of Ashland Creek Press. Their catalog focuses on environmental themes (ecology, animal protection, environment, and wildlife), with a special interest in novels with ecological themes.

Founded by four women in 1976 and still led by an all-female editorial collective, CALYX is committed to publishing “fine literature and art” by women. CALYX focuses on diverse and underrepresented writers and ideas, and emphasizes the discovery and publishing of emerging voices.

Founded in 2012 by Laura Stanfill in Portland, Oregon, Forest Avenue Press publishes literary fiction, often with a speculative bent.

Hawthorne Books is helmed by founder, publisher, and editor Rhonda Hughes. The press specializes in literary fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on narratives that straddle the lines between essay, memoir, and fiction.

Portland’s Tavern Books, which specializes in poetry, is led by editors Natalie Garyet and Carl Adamshick. While Tavern’s entire catalog of chapbooks, reprints, and original works is diverse and beautifully designed, the press is especially well known for its Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series, which “exists to champion exceptional literary works by young women poets [under 40] through book publication in The Living Library, the Tavern Books catalog of innovative poets ranging from first-time authors and neglected masters to Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Laureates.”

KMA Sullivan is the publisher of YesYes Books and coeditor-in-chief of the literary magazine Vinyl. YesYes publishes poetry, fiction, and experimental art, and champions the voices of women, writers of color, and LGBTQ writers.

Lana Hechtman Ayers is the managing editor of local press Concrete Wolf and its PNW-focused imprint MoonPath Press, both of which specialize in poetry collections.