About Us
Astrophil Press was founded in 2008 when duncan b. barlow invested his first university paycheck to publish a small collection of poems by David Gruber. Since its genesis in a Jacksonville, Florida sun room, Astrophil has worked slowly and quietly to publish young writers, established writers, and important books that have fallen out of print.
The name Astrophil Press (derived from Phillip Sydney’s Astrophil and Stella) is a nod to the rich history of stylistic innovations in writing and in this spirit, we strive to publish work from a variety of aesthetic traditions that explore the possibilities of genre, form, and language. We thrill in reading work that falls in the spaces in-between what is known and what is unknown.
Simply put: Astrophil Press publishes books that explore the possibilities of language, form, and genre.
duncan b. barlow, Publisher
McCormick Templeman, Fiction Editor
Dennis McSweeney, Poetry Editor
Aliza Kuzmina, Social Media Editor
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Mailing Address
Astrophil Press at University of South Dakota
Department of English
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD 57069
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