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We publish in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields for general readers, scholars, and students. Home of the Pitt Poetry Series.

https://upittpress.org/

NOT the official account of the university.
"Sharing Spaces succeeds in framing the history of technology through multispecies thinking..."

Terrific review from Technology and Culture!
@finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

muse-jhu-edu.pitt.idm.oclc.org/article/971316
October 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Congrats to John Bonanni @bananascallops.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for his collection, RETROVIROLOGY, selected by @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social!

UPP will publish RETROVIROLOGY in the Fall 2026:
www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...
October 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
& happy pub day to What God in the Kingdom of Bastards by Brian Gyamfi, who has already been compared to a "young Frank Bidart"
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/09/...

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September 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy pub day to The Same Man by Bobby Elliott, winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry prize, selected by Nate Marshall
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September 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A very special Tuesday as we celebrate a new edition of a poetic classic and welcome two brillian debuts to the Pitt Poetry Series family:
Happy pub day to:
the 45th anniversary edition of Satan Says by Sharon Olds
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September 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy pub day to World Observation: Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta by Matthew Mullane!

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September 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The University of Pittsburgh Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of August Wilson's American Century: Life as Art by Laurence A. Glasco, on sale 2/10/25

Details and preorder: upittpress.org/books/978082...

DRCs are available on Netgalley and Edelweiss
August 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Our Fall/Winter 2025 catalog is now live! It features the 2025 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, a new edition of Satan Says by Sharon Olds, plus scholarly monographs on a global scale. Take a look!

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August 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
2000 Blacks by Ajibola Tolase is on the shortlist for the 2025 Walcott Prize! Honoring the work of St. Lucian Nobel Prize poet Derek Walcott, the prize is offered annually for a book of poetry by a non-US citizen published anywhere in the world.

Congrats, Ajibola!

www.arrowsmithpress.com/walcott
July 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A starred review from LJ for the 45th anniversary edition of Satan Says:
"Olds’s many fans will rejoice to see this once-inflammatory little paperback dressed up in a handsome hardcover, lovingly introduced by fellow Pulitzer Prize winner Diane Seuss."

www.libraryjournal.com/review/satan...
July 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thrilled to see Pink Lady by Denise Duhamel reviewed in Bust Magazine!

“These poems are bittersweet gifts that endure, beautifully memorialized by a daughter to the woman who made her.”

bust.com/amber-tambly... Amber Tamblyn’s Poetry Corner - BUST
July 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"meticulous and exemplary scholarship that deserves a wide audience for recontextualizing and clarifying Foucault’s politics and intellectual development."

Stellar review of Marcelo Hoffman's Foucault in Brazil in the latest issue of Foucault Studies:

muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
July 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"The delicate weaving of the multiple temporalities at stake in these novels makes The Return of the Contemporary an important work that is certain to influence future scholarship for many years."

Terrific review of Nicolas Campisi's new study in Transmodernity:
escholarship.org/uc/item/5w31...
June 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
And the NYRB showcased two of our forthcoming Fall 25 titles….
June 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Excited to see some of our recent titles included in the London Review of Books University Press spread!
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy pub day to Achy Affects: Crisis and Compositions of Selfhood by CE Mackenzie

Achy Affects is a trans-genre memoir that boldly reimagines how we care for ourselves and our communities amidst relentless cultural, political, and ecological upheavals.

Order here: upittpress.org/books/978082...
June 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Galleys available for Galileo’s Fame by @annalunapost.bsky.social

With this book, Anna-Luna Post offers a welcome new perspective on the volatile dynamic between early modern fame and science in Italy, shifting the focus from the recipient of fame to its brokers.

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June 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Congrats to Sheila Crane, whose book, City in the Shadow of Shantytown. A Critical History of Bidonville, we're honored to publish in the Spring 2026!

www.arch.virginia.edu/news/center-...
May 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Submissions are open for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize! Deadline is 6/30/25.

The Drue Heinz Literature Prize recognizes and supports writers of short fiction and makes their work available to readers around the world.

The winner receives $15,000, details here: upittpress.org/prize/drue-h...
May 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Our History of Architecture sale continues until June 2nd!

30% off with code 29SAH25, free shipping within the continental US.
Details here:
upittpress.org/sah-2025-con...
May 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Three of books are featured in the 2025 @aupresses.bsky.social Book, Jacket, and Journal show!
Congrats to Alex Wolfe, our Editorial and Production Director, who designed all three:
May 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We’re thrilled to share the cover for A Place in the World by Bill Gaythwaite, winner of the 2025 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

Details & preorder: upittpress.org/books/978082...

Cover design by Alex Wolfe
May 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happy pub day to Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela's Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948 by Doug Yarrington.

Profitable Offices pioneers a new approach to the historical study of corruption and the struggle against it.

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April 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Happy pub day to Imperial Weather: Meteorlogy, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya by Fiona Williamson

Williamson revisits the fraught relationship between climate, weather science, and empire within the Straits Settlements in the long nineteenth century.
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April 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
A very happy pub day to Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements by Catherine Boland Erkkila!

This book ultimately offers a greater understanding of the immigrant experience in America through the lens of spatial history.

Details/on sale: upittpress.org/books/978082...
April 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM