Parent company | Catapult, funded and co-founded by Elizabeth Koch |
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Founded | 1992 |
Founder | Sander Hicks |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | New York City |
Distribution | Publishers Group West |
Key people | Yuka Igarashi, editor |
Nonfiction topics | Alternative culture, LGBTQ literature |
Imprints | Red Rattle Books |
Official website | softskull |
Soft Skull Press is an independent book publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Yuka Igarashi since 2017.[1] In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, who closed Soft Skull's New York operation in 2010.[2] Counterpoint merged into fellow publisher Catapult in 2016; subsequently, Soft Skull reopened its New York office with Yuka Igarashi as editor-in-chief,[3] and began to reissue backlist books, including The Amputee's Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise and Something Bright, Then Holes by Maggie Nelson and Wayne Koestenbaum's 2004 novel, Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes with a new title, Circus,[4] and to acquire and publish new ones.
It is distributed to the book trade by Publishers Group West.
References
- ^ "Q and A with an Editor: Yuka Igarashi". The Authors Guild. January 18, 2018.
- ^ Neyfakh, Leon (November 2, 2010). "Indie Publisher Soft Skull Press Closes Its Doors In New York". The New York Observer.
- ^ "Two Years Post-merger, Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Are Going Strong". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-04.
- ^ "BOMB interviews Wayne Koestenbaum about Circus". Soft Skull Press. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2021-03-24.