Based as we are in Alaska’s Wrangell Mountains, surrounded by glaciers and proximal to the largest non-polar icefield in the world, a circumpolar ethos inflects our reading even as we court, welcome, and seek readers and contributing authors from all over the country and beyond. We may well be the most remote publishing house in the country. Our commitment, though, is to an ever-broadening whole community that Alaska is privy to and part of not from the fringes, not from terra incognita, but from the center of many crossing roads and airways that together map home as a point of interrelation.
Having debuted Porphyry Press with a literary history and a memoir in essays, we are working to develop a catalog that also includes poetry, lyric essay collections, novels, hybrids, and more. We work to find books by diverse authors—books by women, BIPOC thinkers, and other marginalized voices. We’ll collaborate with partners as we go to serve readers and audiences with experiences and conversations that broaden the scope of any individual book. And we’ll continue to tap two increasingly precious resources abundant here that author Sherry Simpson saw as characteristic of Alaska’s “literary refugium”—solitude and community.
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Publisher & Editor
Jeremy Pataky
Authors
Tom Kizzia
John Messick
Erica Watson
Maya Jewell Zeller
Thank you to our sponsors
The Barrett Family
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Blackburn Heritage Foundation
$2,500
McCarthy Lodge
$3,500 plus preorders
Shirley Wheatland, in memory of Gregg Wheatland
$2,500
Sally Gibert & Dick Mylius
$1,500
Rich Kirkwood, Kennicott Glacier Lodge
$500 plus preorders
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$100-$499
Andy Aschwanden
Lynn Hallquist
Mark Merwin
Molly Mylius
Pat Proden
Rob Wesson
Tara Wheatland
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