Book Arts
DoubleCross Press
I founded DoubleCross Press in 2008 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as a student in the Book Arts and Creative Writing MFA programs at the University of Alabama. In the past 17 years, the press has moved with me, and I and my co-editors Jeff Peterson (2009-present) and Anna Gurton-Wachter (2014-2023) have made books at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Center for Book Arts in New York, and Swayspace.
With an eye toward artist book studio practices and spaces, and toward the materials and structures of contemporary and historic hand-bookmaking, DoubleCross Press produces physical manifestations of our writers' language. We publish poetry chapbooks, essays on book arts and book culture, and poetry journals. We plan to sunset the press by the end of 2026 to make room for new projects.
“DoubleCross Press makes gorgeous letterpress chapbooks. But these aren’t just pretty faces; it’s what’s on the inside—poetry, poetics and ‘prose-ish’ pieces—that counts.”
“Doublecross Press…makes handsewn, letterpressed chapbooks that always feel like considered collaborations between publisher and author.”
Some additional conversations about DoubleCross Press
Interview in the Poetry Society of America’s “Q & A: Chapbook Publishers”
The letterpress broadside—a one-sided print of text or text and image, combined—was my first love when it came to making objects out of words by hand. Over the years, I’ve made broadsides for publications and literary organizations including the University of Alabama, Fairy Tale Review, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Woodland Pattern Bookcenter, the Center for Book Arts, and Belladonna* Collaborative.
Letterpress Broadsides
Handmade Artist Books
In addition to publishing my work in magazines, journals, and small-press books, I also make artist books that bring together writing, community participation, and letterpress (and in one case, risograph) printing. These books include my own poetry, but are often created for or in response to an occasion: the winter solstice (Prevailing Conditions/RE: Tell me about your weather? (2020)), a public reading (Five Short Essays on the Lyric/The Laundry Poem (2018)), or a participatory art project (Mississippi Walking Poems (2016)).
