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Pioneers Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2012 following a split from Portland-based publisher Microcosm Publishing by publisher/editor Jessie Duke and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with its distribution center on a farm outside the town of Leavenworth, Kansas.[1][2] According to its website, Pioneer Press focuses "on survival and sustainability on the farm and in the city, in addition to health, gender, sexuality, social justice and food movements, and literary works by up-and-coming authors."[2] Called "the certifiably badass bookbinders from the prairies of Kansas" by Fast Company magazine,[3] The press has released titles that have made the best-seller lists of various independent bookstores, including Powell's Books' #1 best-selling small press title of 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017 The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherf*ckin' Sad).[4] The press was also called by Entropy Mag one of the "Best Small Presses of 2015".[5]

References

  1. ^ "When Radical Zine Publishers Go to Court". Grasstronaut. October 10, 2014. Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; October 21, 2014 suggested (help)
  2. ^ a b "About Us – Pioneers Press". Pioneerspress.com. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  3. ^ Baer, Drake (June 7, 2013). "How Frank Ocean, Warren Buffett, And Other Badasses Deal With Soul-Sucking Haters". Fast Company. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  4. ^ "Adam Gnade – wearepioneerspress: The Powell's Books on". News.adamgnade.com. January 20, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  5. ^ Entropy staff (December 3, 2015). "Best of 2015". Entropy. Retrieved October 26, 2017.