The Kent State University Press

12/17/2025

More happy news this holiday season: Cleveland Scene Magazine names “The Coming of Fabrizze” one of “10 Cleveland Novels the Book Lover in Your Life Actually Would Like for Christmas.” We’re proud to have reissued Raymond DeCapite‘s novel at KSUP, and grateful to Vince Grzegorek for celebrating this “deft portrayal of Italian-American immigrants’ hope and hard work” in Cleveland:

https://www.clevescene.com/arts/arts-stories-and-interviews/10-cleveland-novels-the-book-lover-in-your-life-actually-would-like-for-christmas/

12/16/2025

One last reviews roundup for 2025. Congrats to all our authors, and thanks to our many readers!

The inaugural issue of the journal Rust Belt Studies includes an excerpt from Where East Meets (Mid)West, edited by Jon Lauck and Gleaves Whitney, as well as a review of Deborah Fleming’s Gho…

12/13/2025

Big news for the study of our region: The Rust Belt Humanities Lab has launched the new journal “Rust Belt Studies”! We’re proud to see KSUP’s books and authors represented in the inaugural issue, which includes Jon Lauck’s essay from his coedited volume “Where East Meets (Mid)West,” plus a great review of Deborah Fleming’s book “Ghosts of an Old Forest.” The journal is free to read—find it here:

https://www.rustbeltstudies.org/journal

12/09/2025

Including Deborah Fleming’s “Ghosts of an Old Forest,” published this year by Kent State University Press!

Find new releases in fiction, nonfiction, art, poetry and more from authors affiliated with Northeast Ohio's literary scene.

12/07/2025

As the year winds down, a note of thanks to some of the review outlets, literary organizations, and other partners who’ve helped celebrate Kent State University Press’s books and authors in 2025. We’re proud to participate in communities—on campus, around Ohio, and throughout the wider world—dedicated to nurturing books and reading. And we look forward to an even bigger year in 2026.

12/05/2025

Congrats to Terry Belew, whose book “The Deep Blue of Neptune,” copublished with the Wick Poetry Center, is reviewed in The Good Life Review!

The Good Life Review presents Jamie Wendt's Review of "The Deep Blue of Neptune" by Terry Belew, Winner of the 2024 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize

12/04/2025

Holiday shoppers: Our big sale is still going! Save 40% (plus free shipping) with code KSUP60 at checkout on Kent State University Press's site:

www.kentstateuniversitypress.com

We’re wrapping up University Press Week with the announcement of our big sale—$5 books at our in-person event at Kent State University Libraries, and 40% off (plus free shipping) with code KSUP60 on our site. Hope to see you November 19 and 20!

https://kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/announcing-our-big-sale/

11/21/2025

On Nov. 19 and 20, the Kent State University Press held its second Annual Book Sale on the first floor of the Kent State University Library. The sale offered books published by the Press for just $5. Poetry, history and nature books, among many other genres, were offered. Mary Young, the assistant d...

11/14/2025

We’re wrapping up University Press Week with the announcement of our big sale—$5 books at our in-person event at Kent State University Libraries, and 40% off (plus free shipping) with code KSUP60 on our site. Hope to see you November 19 and 20!

https://kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/announcing-our-big-sale/

11/06/2025

Great seeing KSUP author Terry Belew (pictured here with Clara Totten, David Hassler, and Alison Hawthorne Deming) at last night’s Wick Poetry Center event in Kent!

Belew’s book “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize—is available now. In her foreword to the volume, Deming wrote: “‘The Deep Blue of Neptune’ is a powerful and moving debut collection, a book that is clear-eyed, unsentimental, and tender in the face of the brutalities of our time. For Terry Belew, the local is the lens through which the universal struggles of our mortal condition can be seen. And to see, really see, and find the artful words for that seeing is indeed to be of use.”

11/04/2025

Happy pub day to Rebecca Jumper Matheson! Her book “Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps” is new in our series with the Costume Society of America:

https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisans-and-designers/