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Miami University Press
356 Bachelor Hall
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
Phone
(513) 529-2602
Staff
Editor
Keith Tuma is Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Science and the Editor of the Miami Univerisity Press.
Managing Editor
2004 marked the beginning of a new era for Miami University Press. The Press introduced a new fiction series, beginning with Marianne Villanueva’s collection of short stories, Mayor of the Roses. We are under new leadership, with Keith Tuma taking over the position of Editor and Dana Leonard as Managing Editor.
Beginning in 1992, Miami University Press brought out two books of poems each year by poets who had already had at least one full-length collection of poetry published.
The series has featured such mid-career poets as Ralph Angel, whose Neither World won the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets. Hugh Seidman’s Selected Poems: 1965-1995 won a 1995 Critics’ Choice Award and was chosen as one of the Village Voice’s “25 Favorite Books of 1995.”
The Press continued its publication of fine poetry in 2005 with a volume of poems by a range of established and newer African American writers titled Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry. Rainbow Darkness grew from poems and talks presented at Marjorie Cook Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry held at Miami University in September 2003. The anthology hopes to extend the conversations that took place at the conference to another, larger audience.
Also in 2005 the Press launched its novella contest. Winners include Albert Sgambati, The Waiting Room, in 2005; Cynthia Reeves, Badlands, 2006; and Cary Holladay, A Fight in the Doctor’s Office, 2007. The winning entry to the 2008 contest, The Guide to the Flying Island by Lee Upton, will be published in June 2009.
Miami University Press also published Phillip R. Shriver’s Miami University: A Personal History, available by calling (513) 529-2602.
We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.