The Press has an interest in works that straddle conventional categories: Great Lakes/Northeastern U.S. literature,[1] women, Caribbean, translations, science fiction poetry and recent immigrant experience.
Award-winning authors have released books with Mayapple, including Brian Aldiss,[2] Jeannine Hall Gailey,[3] Howard Schwartz, and Allison Joseph.
[4] Mayapple Press authors also include Jayne Pupek, Conrad Hilberry, William Heyen, Penelope Schott, Myra Sklarew, Judith Minty, Eleanor Lerman, Mariela Griffor, Dennis Hinrichsen, David Lunde, Catherine Anderson, Jessica Goodfellow,[5] Toni Ortner, Judith McCombs, Zilka Joseph, Johanny Vazquez Paz, Claire Keyes,[6] and Nancy Botkin and Devon J. Moore.
In 2012, Mary Winegarden's poetry collection, The Translator's Sister, received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.
[7] Kathryn Kirkpatrick's poetry collection, Out of the Garden, was a Finalist in the 2008 Southern Independent Booksellers Association Book Award.