The Kent State University Press

07/22/2025

Our fall catalog is here! Join us to:

📕anticipate new books (including partnerships with Wick Poetry Center and Costume Society of America);

📕look back on 60 years of KSUP history; and

📕celebrate recent successes by Steve Herman, Charles Malone, Carrie George, Jason Harris, and more.

Happy reading!

https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/2025_KSUP_fl-catalog.pdf

07/20/2025

Great seeing so many recent titles from Kent State University Press at Loganberry Books in Cleveland! Big thanks to them—and to independent bookstores everywhere—for their support.

07/18/2025

We’re preparing to unveil our fall catalog, which is a nice excuse to look back on select KSUP catalogs from the past sixty years!

07/17/2025

Congrats to Mary Noé, whose book launch at North Shore Historical Museum is written up in the Long Island Press! See the author tonight (7/17) when her tour arrives at Boston Public Library.

The North Shore Historical Museum welcomed a full house on Friday, June 20, for the launch of "The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan: A Life of Arsenic, Anarchy and

07/15/2025

The July issue of Cleveland Magazine has a fun list of “The 81 Essential Cleveland Novels”—including one from Kent State University Press! “The Coming of Fabrizze,” by Raymond DeCapite, was originally published in 1960 and tells the story of an Italian immigrant in Cleveland in the 1920s:

https://clevelandmagazine.com/entertainment/books/articles/the-81-essential-cleveland-novels

07/11/2025

07/09/2025

Pleased to share a new Q&A with Terry Belew, author of “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize from KSUP and the Wick Poetry Center. He’s in conversation with Cheryl Dyer, a writer trained (like Terry) at University of Nebraska MFA in Writing.

Watch for “The Deep Blue of Neptune” in September.

Big thanks to Cheryl Dyer for talking with Terry Belew, author of The Deep Blue of Neptune—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. It’s coming in September from Kent State U…

07/08/2025

Even better in print! Grateful for the opportunity to highlight KSUP books in the July issue of Harper’s (which is celebrating its 175th birthday the same year we’re celebrating our 60th). Look for it on newsstands now.

07/03/2025

Forthcoming in our series with Costume Society of America!

📖 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps

Published by The Kent State University Press, Artisans and Designers is the first in-depth analysis of the Phelpses’ partnership, their often overlooked contributions to the fashion industry, and their forward-thinking business practices.

Rebecca Jumper Matheson draws on their pieces to connect their work to larger conversations about sustainable fashion, consumerism, industrialization practices, and the intersection of art with American identity during and after World War II.

📆 Coming November 4
🔗 To learn more, click here: https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisans-and-designers/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLTnIFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmdolnW-V4q5tizKG6oVmCtkogi1Rc-SbiAqcBGd_58pjVRmN_2ApV2BNSvg_aem_RvL2u4bU8fpexNXTr2qKsQ #:~:text=Artisans%20and%20Designers%20is%20the,their%20forward%2Dthinking%20business%20practices

07/02/2025

Both Gray & Company and Kent State University Press have built business on producing work for Northeast Ohio-based readers. By Maura Zurick

06/30/2025

Did you see? Last week Signal Akron included “Light Enters the Grove” on its list of books to celebrate Akron’s 200th birthday. Congrats to the volume editors, to all of the contributors, and to our partners at the Wick Poetry Center!

https://signalakron.org/words-on-the-street-books-to-read-with-your-children-to-celebrate-akrons-200th-birthday-and-to-learn-about-pride-month/

06/27/2025

Happy pub day to Martin Bush, whose book “Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves” is now available!

https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2024/deadbeats-dead-balls-and-the-1914-boston-braves/?highlight=Deadbeats