Headmistress Press

Notable poets who have published collections with Headmistress include Janice Gould, Joy Ladin, Constance Merritt, and Lesléa Newman.

The advisory board includes Ellen Bass, R. Nemo Hill, JP Howard, Joy Ladin, and Hannah Barrett.

[7] I Carry My Mother by Lesléa Newman was named a 2016 "Must Read" title by the Massachusetts Center for the Book[8] and received the 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society Poetry Award.

The press also published a general-audience anthology, Irresistible Sonnets, featuring sonnets by contemporary poets such as Robin Becker, Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, Geoffrey Hill, Joshua Mehigan, Marilyn Nelson, Catherine Tufariello, and many others;[11] it was selected for the Best Books List for June 2014 by Grace Cavalieri of the Washington Independent Review of Books.

They feature such poets as Naomi Replansky, Amy Lowell, Charlotte Mew, Eloise Klein Healy, Judy Grahn, Audre Lorde, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, among others.