Aunt Lute

Aunt Lute Intersectional, feminist press centering q***r women and women of color. Since 1982!

You’re invited to our BIGGEST celebration of the year! In less than 2 weeks, we're celebrating the birthday of literary ...
09/15/2025

You’re invited to our BIGGEST celebration of the year! In less than 2 weeks, we're celebrating the birthday of literary icon and cultural theorist Gloria Anzaldúa. Happening in person and online. Early bird ticket sales end SOON—save your spot: https://ow.ly/SgbS50WXeKX

🎉🎉 The line-up includes:
A reading by genre-defying writer Jewelle Gomez, from her forthcoming book Caramelle & Carmilla
🌀 Delicious food!
Words by professor and author, Dr Aída Hurtado
🌀 Raffles!
And words by visionary leader and co-founder of Aunt Lute, Joan Pinkvoss

Each ticket = FUEL for the FUTURE of insurgent, feminist thought by supporting Aunt Lute Books.

In-person event: 1pm on Sep. 28 at The Greenlining Institute
Online event: Zoom links will be sent!

09/10/2025

"Horror is, you know, I tell people horror is more of a feeling, not just a genre. And everything I write has a little bit of, you know, kind of psychological horror to it, but it allows us to really reimagine what is monstrous, right?" –Michele T Berger, author of Doll Seed: Stories (Aunt Lute, 2024).

📽️ Watch Aunt Lute authors Jewelle Gomez (Caramelle & Carmilla, 2025), LeAnne Howe (Shell Shaker, 2001), and Michele Tracy Berger (Doll Seed: Stories, 2024) join Every Library to discuss "how speculative fiction isn’t just escape, it’s revolutionary."

Full discussion here! https://www.youtube.com/live/ghQB0l_6M_0

🔥 Who's ready to join a celebration of voices that refuse to be silenced? WILD TONGUES CAN'T BE TAMED is an UNAPOLOGETI...
09/08/2025

🔥 Who's ready to join a celebration of voices that refuse to be silenced? WILD TONGUES CAN'T BE TAMED is an UNAPOLOGETIC celebration that's here to uplift untamable voices. Voices that challenge borders of gender, genre, and power. 🔥 Get your tickets today: https://ow.ly/nGHP50WT8P2

When: On September 28 at 1:00 p.m.,
Where: Online AND in person at The Greenlining Institute in Oakland.
What: Powerful celebration and reading. Funds raised will help fuel the future of feminist thought by supporting a press that's been rocking the boat since 1982.

We can't wait to see you there. Please help us spread the word!

The Greenlining Institute

04/23/2025

I haven't had the opportunity to do many local Cleveland events so am thrilled about this on Sat! I'll be signing books from 11am-12pm. Love Indie Bookstore Day celebrations! If you're local, I hope to see you there!

Swing by Aunt Lute table at for a book signing by Michele Tracy Berger's Doll Seed!!
03/28/2025

Swing by Aunt Lute table at for a book signing by Michele Tracy Berger's Doll Seed!!



Team has arrived in Los Angeles for 's ! Excited to hang out with everyone - especially our fellow members!!!
03/27/2025

Team has arrived in Los Angeles for 's ! Excited to hang out with everyone - especially our fellow members!!!

Thank you for featuring Doll Seed: Stories by Michele Tracy Berger in your holiday gift guide!!! Doll Seed is in great ...
12/04/2024

Thank you for featuring Doll Seed: Stories by Michele Tracy Berger in your holiday gift guide!!!

Doll Seed is in great company next to We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado!!!

11/15/2024

🌌📚 If you’re a fan of Octavia Butler, Dean Koontz, or Kelly Link, Michele Tracy Berger’s debut short story collection is a must-read! Playful, provocative, and powerfully speculative, these stories weave together sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, horror, and magical realism, all grounded in vivid characters and richly textured communities. 🌠✨

Centered around the experiences of women and girls—especially women of color—this collection explores vulnerability, resilience, and the power of being an outsider.

You can get Doll Seed: Stories by Michele Tracy Berger from one of our fantastic indie bookstores partners: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and

10/24/2024

Urban Wendy is one of the 15 speculative stories featured in Doll Seed: Stories. Check out the audio drama adaptation of Urban Wendy produced by ! The full episode is available on all podcast platforms.

Marisol thought she could leave Wendy's behind, but the past has a way of catching up... even at Dunkin' Donuts.

🖋 Written by
🎙 Performed by Kristina Hill
🎧 Directed by Kennedy Allen of Women At Warp
🔊 Sound Design by Gabe Castro of The Ghouls Next Door

You can get Doll Seed: Stories by Michele Tracy Berger from one of our fantastic indie bookstores partners:

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10/18/2024

Dive into the creative world of the brilliant Michele Tracy Berger as she reveals the literary influences that ignite her storytelling! 📚 Discover the books that sparked her imagination and the inspirations that shaped her unique voice. Get an exclusive peek into the mind behind her captivating writing!

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Aunt Lute Books was started in 1982 in Iowa City by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss, who believed that neither mainstream publishing nor the feminist movement of that time was promoting the voices of le****ns, especially le****ns and women of color. In 1986, Aunt Lute Books moved to San Francisco to partner with the small le***an press Spinsters Ink, and did business under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute. In 1990, Aunt Lute became a separate nonprofit under the umbrella of the Aunt Lute Foundation, with the intention of creating a culturally diverse collective of staff, interns, and board members to address the lack of presses run by women of color. From 1990 onwards, Aunt Lute has created a place for the voices of women from many different cultures and helped to foster their careers. Many of Aunt Lute’s titles are acknowledged as important contributions to the academic fields of le***an studies and gender studies. Titles such as Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera and Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals have been included in the curricula of hundreds of educational institutions throughout the U.S. and around the world.