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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.

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Slime Line

A Novel

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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How to Make Your Mother Cry

Fictions

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Utter, Earth

Advice on Living in a More-than-Human World

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Hell’s Not Far Off

Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Roxy and Coco

A Novel

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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God of River Mud

A Novel

West Virginia University Press

Grappling with innate desires and LGBTQ identity, a family struggles under the oppressive expectations foisted on them by fundamentalist Christianity.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Finding the Singing Spruce

Musical Instrument Makers and Appalachia's Mountain Forests

West Virginia University Press

Environment, craft, and meaning in the work of Appalachian instrument makers.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Mama Said

Stories

West Virginia University Press

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

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Critical Geographies of Youth

Law, Policy, and Power

West Virginia University Press

Scholarly and activist perspectives on identities often overlooked in the study of geography: youth and age.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Shattered

Fragments of a Black Life

West Virginia University Press

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

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Clear Creek

Toward a Natural Philosophy

West Virginia University Press

Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Essential Voices

A COVID-19 Anthology

West Virginia University Press

A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Wounds That Bind Us

West Virginia University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Abigail Field Mott's The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano

A Scholarly Edition

Edited by Eric D. Lamore
West Virginia University Press

An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Community across Time

Robert Morgan’s Words for Home

West Virginia University Press

One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom

West Virginia University Press

How teachers can help combat higher education’s mental health crisis.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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American Energy Cinema

West Virginia University Press

Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me

Stories

West Virginia University Press

For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene

West Virginia University Press

A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The In-Betweens

A Lyrical Memoir

West Virginia University Press

The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black and Jewish families—a “brilliant, devastating book.”

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Fifth Border State

Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872

West Virginia University Press

One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility

The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai‘i

West Virginia University Press

How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Picture a Professor

Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning

West Virginia University Press

A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Bratwurst Haven

Stories

West Virginia University Press

Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Imperium in Imperio

West Virginia University Press

A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Curing Season

Artifacts

West Virginia University Press

“A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn’t offer you a space.” —Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Almanac for the Anthropocene

A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures

West Virginia University Press

Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Inclusive Teaching

Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom

West Virginia University Press

Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Foote

A Mystery Novel

West Virginia University Press

“Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives—cryptid or otherwise.” —Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Teaching Matters

A Guide for Graduate Students

West Virginia University Press

A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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