[1] The company is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and achieved non-profit status in 2012.
New American Press was founded in 2001 as part of American Distractions, an arts-support initiative in North Carolina that supported gallery shows, fringe theater events, short film viewings, and literary events.
[2] New American Press originally published chapbooks, and released its first full-length in 2007,[3] a collection of lesser-known Chekhov stories, each introduced by a contemporary writer.
[4] The press publishes the winners of its national poetry and fiction competitions, as well as solicited works, both original and translated into English.
[6] Notable authors published by New American Press include Kyle Minor, Lee K. Abbott, Alden Jones, Icelandic author Olafur Gunnarsson, and Thomas E Kennedy.