[1] The press was founded by Dana Curtis in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 2000 and relocated to Denver in 2004.
[2][3] Authors published by Elixir Press include Diann Blakely, Bruce Bond, Amina Gautier, Erin Hoover, Sarah Kennedy, Kathryn Nuernberger, Jane Satterfield, Seth Brady Tucker, Anthony Varallo, and Jake Adam York.
[6] Diann Blakely's book, Cities of Flesh and the Dead, won the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America.
[9][10] Elixir Press holds three national book contests open to authors writing in English.
[11] Begun in 2006, the Elixir Press Fiction Award is presented to the writer of a novel or short story collection every two years.