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The formative years of Milkweed Editions – a story told by its cofounder. In the 1970s and ‘80s, as major New York publishing houses were consolidating and growing ever larger, small nonprofit presses and journals emerged. With a variety of missions, literary, social, political, these small publishers shared a desire to prioritize quality over quantity. One was Milkweed Chronicle, the literary and visual arts journal launched in 1980 by writer Emilie Buchwald and artist R.W. Scholes in Minneapolis that would become Milkweed Editions
A Milkweed Chronicle is the first-person account by cofounder Emilie Buchwald of how the journal morphed into an award-winning nonprofit literary press. It is the story of writers who established Milkweed’s reputation for excellence in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—and especially, by the mid-1990s, in books about the natural world. And it is also the story of the editors and staff who established and first achieved Milkweed’s mission of publishing transformative literature.
About the author
Emilie Buchwald, PhD, was the founding copublisher and editor of
Milkweed Chronicle and Milkweed Editions. She is the founding publisher, now copublisher, and editor of The Gryphon Press, children¿s picture books celebrating the human-animal bond. Books she has edited have received more than two hundred awards and recognitions.
Buchwald¿s book of poems,
The Moment¿s Only Moment, is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award winner. She was editor of the Poetry Society of Americäs Wallace Stevens Centenary Celebration publication and the coeditor of three poetry anthologies.
She is the author of two children¿s novels, Floramel and Esteban (William Allen White Children¿s Book Master List) and
Gildaen (Best Children¿s Book of the Year, Ages 9¿12, Chicago Tribune Book Festival Award), and of two children¿s picture books under the name Daisy Bix:
At the Dog Park with Sam and Lucy and Buddy Unchained (Henry Bergh Award, Best Children¿s Picture Book of the Year, and HSUS KIND Award, Best Children¿s Picture Book of the Year).
Buchwald is a recipient of the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, the Kay Sexton Award, the A.P. Anderson Award, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota, and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Emilie and her husband, Henry, live in Minneapolis.
Summary
The formative days of Milkweed Editions - a story told by its cofounder.
In the 1970s and ‘80s, as major New York publishing houses were consolidating and growing ever larger, small nonprofit presses and journals emerged. With a variety of missions—literary, social, political—these small publishers shared a desire to prioritize quality over quantity. One was Milkweed Chronicle, the literary and visual arts journal launched in 1980 by writer Emilie Buchwald and artist R.W. Scholes in Minneapolis—a city experiencing significant growth in the arts—that would become Milkweed Editions.
A Milkweed Chronicle is the first-person account by cofounder Emilie Buchwald of how the journal morphed into an award-winning nonprofit literary press. It is the story of writers who established Milkweed’s reputation for excellence in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—and especially, by the mid-1990s, in books about the natural world. And it is also the story of the editors and staff who established and first achieved Milkweed’s mission of publishing transformative literature.
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"Anyone who wants a complete library of the history of the arts in Minnesota needs Buchwald's book . . . Perfect for holiday giving." —Mary Ann Grossman, St. Paul Pioneer Press
