West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.
God of River Mud
A Novel
Grappling with innate desires and LGBTQ identity, a family struggles under the oppressive expectations foisted on them by fundamentalist Christianity.
- Publication year: 2024
Finding the Singing Spruce
Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests
Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.
- Publication year: 2023
Mama Said
Stories
Original stories of Black family life in Louisville, Kentucky, for readers of Dantiel Moniz (Milk Blood Heat) and Kai Harris (What the Fireflies Knew).
“Surprising and revelatory. . . . I love this book.” —Stephanie Powell Watts, author of No One Is Coming to Save Us
- Publication year: 2023
Critical Geographies of Youth
Law, Policy, and Power
Scholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age.
- Publication year: 2023
Shattered
Fragments of a Black Life
A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
“Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books.” —Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro
- Publication year: 2023
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.
- Publication year: 2023
Essential Voices
A COVID-19 Anthology
A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.
- Publication year: 2023
The Wounds That Bind Us
The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.
- Publication year: 2023
Abigail Field Mott's The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano
A Scholarly Edition
An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.
- Publication year: 2023
Community across Time
Robert Morgan’s Words for Home
One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.
- Publication year: 2023