{"product_id":"a-milkweed-chronicle-the-formative-years-of-a-literary-nonprofit-press-9781639550470","title":"A Milkweed Chronicle: The Formative Years of a Literary Nonprofit Press","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe formative years of Milkweed Editions - a story told by its cofounder. In the 1970s and '80s, as major New York publishing houses were consolidating and growing ever larger, small nonprofit presses and journals emerged.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a variety of missions, literary, social, political, these small publishers shared a desire to prioritize quality over quantity. One was Milkweed Chronicle, the literary and visual arts journal launched in 1980 by writer Emilie Buchwald and artist R.W. Scholes in Minneapolis that would become Milkweed Editions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Milkweed Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e is the first-person account by cofounder Emilie Buchwald of how the journal morphed into an award-winning nonprofit literary press. It is the story of writers who established Milkweed's reputation for excellence in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction--and especially, by the mid-1990s, in books about the natural world. And it is also the story of the editors and staff who established and first achieved Milkweed's mission of publishing transformative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuchwald, Emilie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Emilie Buchwald, PhD, was the founding copublisher and editor of \u003ci\u003eMilkweed Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and Milkweed Editions. She is the founding publisher, now copublisher, and editor of The Gryphon Press, children's picture books celebrating the human-animal bond. Books she has edited have received more than two hundred awards and recognitions. \u003cbr\u003e Buchwald's book of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Moment's Only Moment\u003c\/i\u003e, is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award winner. She was editor of the Poetry Society of America's Wallace Stevens Centenary Celebration publication and the coeditor of three poetry anthologies. \u003cbr\u003e She is the author of two children's novels, Floramel and Esteban (William Allen White Children's Book Master List) and \u003ci\u003eGildaen\u003c\/i\u003e (Best Children's Book of the Year, Ages 9-12, Chicago Tribune Book Festival Award), and of two children's picture books under the name Daisy Bix: \u003ci\u003eAt the Dog Park with Sam and Lucy and Buddy Unchained\u003c\/i\u003e (Henry Bergh Award, Best Children's Picture Book of the Year, and HSUS KIND Award, Best Children's Picture Book of the Year). \u003cbr\u003e Buchwald is a recipient of the McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, the Kay Sexton Award, the A.P. Anderson Award, an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota, and the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. \u003cbr\u003e Emilie and her husband, Henry, live in Minneapolis.","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50862356955410,"sku":"9781639550470","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1488b4f-26e8-42d5-8386-0f261b4b7d00.jpg?v=1737621503","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-milkweed-chronicle-the-formative-years-of-a-literary-nonprofit-press-9781639550470","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}