Straw Gate Books, founded by Phyllis Wat in 2005, publishes poetry and occasional related texts. They are particularly interested in works by women and non-polemical writing with an underlying social content. They also feature authors both new and long-established whose work is underserved.

Forthcoming: The Pork Chop Wars, by Laurie Carlos.

Our publication calendar is full for now. We are not accepting manuscripts at this time, but stay tuned.

Publisher's Note: Phyllis Wat is a poet (Shadow Blue, The Fish Soup Bowl Expedition) and a founding co-editor of 6ix (1991-2000), a language-oriented magazine. A graduate of the writing program at Temple University, she is an aficionado of New York School poetics.