Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers.
It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collections accepted through general submission, panel selection, and solicitation by the editors.
[1] The press is run by director and founding editor Martha Rhodes,[2] who is the author of five poetry collections.
[6] Representative authors published by Four Way Books include Catherine Bowman, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Kevin Prufer, Forrest Hamer, Yona Harvey, Monica Youn, Alex Dimitrov, Jeffrey Harrison, Sarah Gorham, D. Nurkse, Gregory Pardlo, C. Dale Young, Noelle Kocot, Joel Brouwer, Michael Dumanis, Cynthia Cruz, Pablo Medina, John Gallaher, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Maya Pindyck, Cynthia Huntington, Jason Schneiderman, Monica Ferrell, Sarah Manguso, and Eugenia Leigh.
Authors have been recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,[7] the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award,[8] the Rome Prize,[9] The Edward Lewis Wallant Award,[10] Guggenheim Fellowships, NEA fellowships, and many other honors; and Tommye Blount's Fantasia for the Man in Blue was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award[11] Four Way Books authors have been interviewed on the PBS NewsHour,[12] regional[13] [14] and national radio,[15][16] and print media,[17][18] including The New York Times.