Some behind-the-scenes moments from our spring season… featuring a pallet delivery, letterpress printing, a volunteer bookbinding day, and some critical book-flexibility-testing. Check out our May books at uglyducklingpresse.org 🌊

Just 4 days to go! Please consider helping UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE and translator Lucy Jones realise this fantastic project which will bring a major German queer writer to English readers for the first time. kickstarter.com/projects/udp/s…

Drawing on “Iranian poetic traditions and the history of their reception in English translation,” Jahan Khajavi’s FEAST OF THE ASS (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE) “presents a series of verses that play in the fields of love poetry’s address.” Poetry for #PrideMonth: uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/f…

We’re so close!! Fund queer communist literature now!! kickstarter.com/projects/udp/s…

Thank you to everyone who supported our @kickstarter campaign to fund the translation and publication of SMALLTOWNNOVELLA by Ronald M. Schernikau!! We can’t wait to share this beautiful, queer Bildungsroman translated by Lucy Jones ☄️

Our studio will be closed for two weeks! Order your books soon if you need them soon :) Or go to fayfay of course.

been working towards the return of McNally’s three small presses column for awhile now, and I’m very proud of what my coworker Landon and I put together, a display featuring Sublunary Editions, UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE and kuš! comics…

Announcing our spring 2025 authors and translators 🔥 Rob Macaisa Colgate Lee Min-ha, tr. Jein Han Grace Nissan Laura Vazquez, tr. Shira Abramovich & Lénaïg Cariou Es Liu Yannis Ritsos, tr. Spring Ulmer bruno darío, tr. Kit Schluter Nhã Thuyên, tr. Kaitlin Rees

You bet we've got plenty of picks for Women in Translation Month! We'll be adding to this list all month, so make sure to check back: asterismbooks.com/list/women-in-…

Our fall 2025 authors and translators 🔥 Tonya M. Foster Terrence Arjoon Ronald M. Schernikau, tr. Lucy Jones Jonathan González Ghazal Mosadeq, tr. Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi Scott Burton & Eduardo Costa, ed. David J. Getsy & Patrick Greaney Lucy Jones Terrence Arjoon

Ida Börjel’s MA, translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida, is on our #WomenInTranslation Month list: This abecedarian from UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE “is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene.” uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/m…

Congrats to Rob Macaisa Colgate! We’re so excited to publish his verse drama My Love Is Water in May 2025 🌊

The Naif, Valerie Hsiung. Monologue of Bartleby in the land of grant applications, but also something here of the gonzo Enlightenment writers (Sterne, Jean Paul) in snap of the thought and sentences, the humor, and how abstraction and realism get resolved, and don't, on the page.

EXILIUM by María Negroni, transl. by Michelle Gil-Montero (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE), is on our #WomenInTranslation Month list: Negroni’s poetry “shines in its utopian desire to write the ‘unwritten words,’ revealing language at its most estranged, most wanting.” uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/e…

The first full English translation of “galáxias” (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE), the magnum opus of Brazilian luminary Haroldo de Campos, is an absolute triumph. New review by Elizabeth Zuba in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/galaxias/

Today's Featured Poem: "Home = Gutter" by stine an ✨, from Second Factory, published by UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE. Read here: poems.com/poem/home-gutt…

Preorder our November books now 🔥🔥 uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/