University of Pittsburgh Press

10/28/2025

Terrific review of The Art of Freedom by Nico Slate in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs!

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was one of the founders of modern India, and Nico Slate chronicles her remarkable life in this evocative book.

10/23/2025

Join us for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize 45th Anniversary reading!
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Tuesday 10/28 at 7pm at , featuring current prize winner Bill Gaythwaite, and alumni prize winners Caroline Kim and Kelly Sather.
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Register today for this free event! https://cityofasylum.org/program/drue-heinz-literature-prize-45th-anniversary/

10/23/2025

"Nothing needs to be pristine to create." Wonderful essay from C.E Mackenzie in the Pittsburgh Review on Books.

C.E will read from Achy Affects, their first book, at White Whale Books & Coffee this Friday 10/24 at 7pm

In my late twenties, I moved from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest without any ambition other than to be among wild landscapes and to write. I settled

10/21/2025

Pittsburgh! is hosting .mackenzie this Friday 10/24 at 7pm to celebrate the publication of Achy Affects, their trans-genre memoir that explores the intersections of healthcare, capitalism, and affect studies.

Register to attend in-person or virtually: https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events

10/21/2025

A very happy pub day to:

✨Flop Era by Lara Egger
✨No Longer at This Address by Andrew Hemmert

Now available at your favorite indie bookstore!

10/20/2025

✨COVER REVEAL✨
Our final cover reveal for our Spring ‘26 poetry is Steeplechase by Angela Ball!

Steeplechase explores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewildered, disillusioned, hopeful.
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Steeplechase will be on sale February 10, 2026, preorders are available now on our website.
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Cover design by Melissa Dias-Mandoly.

10/16/2025

"Where does the Pittsburgh School of Poetry diverge from its New York antecedent? Let’s start with the Pittsburgh School’s utter lack of bu****it, both philosophical and aesthetic."

 Only a handful of Saturdays ago I found myself in the awkward and somewhat surreal position of being at a crowded party and having to squeeze through a

10/16/2025

SPRING 26 Poetry Drop-in title: WINTER STARS by Larry Levis, revised edition, with a new introduction by Paisley Rekdal.
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First published in 1985, Larry Levis’s bestselling classic Winter Stars gets a fresh cover, new interior design, and an introduction by Paisley Rekdal.
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Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a representative life of our time.
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On sale 2/3/26, preorders available on our website. Cover design by Alex Wolfe.

Slide 2: Winter Stars as it appeared in our 1985 catalog.
Slide 3: the original cover

10/14/2025

Thanks to the Pittsburgh Review of Books for this wonderful review of A Place in the World!

When you read a writer who slowly and precisely loves his characters into being, the love that fuels the story gets transferred to you; this is why reading a

10/10/2025

🦌COVER REVEAL🦌

We’re thrilled to share the cover for Gravitation by Milan Děžinský, translated by Nathan Fields.

Gravitation is the selected poetry of Milan Děžinský, translated by Nathan Fields, including many poems previously not published in English by the celebrated Czech poet.
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“Milan Děžinský’s poems probe what lives in the shadows. They’re alert to the echoes and whispers of history, to what’s heard through walls, and to secrets forests keep. They speculate about the wonder of a woman’s tongue, peer into the composition of matter, question who is prey and who is predator. And perhaps most importantly, these poems are attentive to every kind of messenger: injured animals, apparitions, ‘the mathematical beauty of frost,’ a wall containing a still-trembling ‘tear of builder’s sweat.’ Deep and dark as chasms, sometimes wry, sometimes chilling, they demand repeated readings. Dear translator, can we please have some more?”
~Amy Gerstler, author of Is This My Final Form?
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Gravitation will be published on March 3, 2026. Preorders are now available on our website.
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Cover design by Alex Wolfe

10/09/2025

✨COVER REVEAL✨

We’re excited to share the cover of with snow pouring southward past the window by Joan Naviyuk Kane!
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The poems in with snow pouring southward past the window turn with and for relatives and beloveds across seas and oceans, continents and nations, languages and histories. In this collection, public and personal archives work with literary translations across several dialects of the Inupiaq language, and re-complexify Arctics at a time when empires once again seem interested in flattening and erasing millennia of Indigenous inhabitation, care, and situatedness. It was written between Massachusetts, Inuit Nunaat, Sápmi, the “Old World” and through waves of overlapping pandemics, political and social exigencies, and solidarities.
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with snow pouring southward past the window will be published on March 3, 2026. Preorders now available on our website.
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Cover art by Tulluk, cover designed by Alex Wolfe.

10/07/2025

A very happy pub day to two terrific poetry collections:

🌸No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok, winner of the 2024 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

🌸Burn by Barbara Hamby

Now available at your favorite indie bookstore!