The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profituniversity press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals. It publishes work by scholars from the global academic community; works of fiction, memoir and poetry under its imprint, Terrace Books; and serves the citizens of Wisconsin by publishing important books about Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and the Great Lakes region.
UW Press annually awards the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry,[2] and The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry.[3]
The press was founded in 1936 in Madison and is one of more than 120 member presses in the Association of University Presses.[4] The Journals Division was established in 1965. The press employs approximately 25 full and part-time staff, produces 40 to 60 new books a year, and publishes 13 journals.[5] It also distributes books and some annual journals for selected smaller publishers. The press is a unit of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and serves the university's overall mission of research, instruction, and outreach beyond the university.
Books division
Since its first book appeared in 1937, the press has published and distributed more than 3,000 titles. The press has more than 1,400 titles currently in print, including:
scholarly books: American studies and modern American history, African studies, anthropology, Classical studies, dance history, environmental studies, film/cinema history, gay & lesbian studies, modern European and Irish history, Jewish studies, Slavic and Eastern European studies, Southeast Asian Studies, and other subjects
regional books: Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and the Great Lakes region
books of general interest: natural history, poetry, biography, fiction, food, travel.
In 2003, the press acquired the publishing company Popular Press, which specialized in works on popular culture.[6]
