Nightboat Books is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 2004 and located in Brooklyn, New York. The press publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and intergenre books.^[1]

The press was founded in 2004 by Kazim Ali^[2] and Jennifer Chapis.^[3] In 2007, Stephen Motika became publisher.^[4] Nightboat Books publishes manuscripts accepted through general submission and annually awards a $1,000 prize and publication for a book of poems.^[5]

Nightboat Books are distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.^[6] The press has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts,^[7] the New York State Council on the Arts,^[8] the Jerome Foundation,^[9] the Fund for Poetry, and the Topanga Fund.^[10]

Notable authors published by Nightboat Books include Dawn Lundy Martin,^[11] Joanne Kyger, Cole Swensen,^[12] Daniel Borzutzky, Wayne Koestenbaum,^[13] Etel Adnan,^[14] and Fanny Howe.^[15][16] Brian Blanchfield's book A Several World was the 2014 recipient of the James Laughlin Award^[17] and was long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award.^[18][19][20] Brandon Som's publication, The Tribute Horse, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award for a debut book of poetry^[21] and was selected as a finalist for the 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award for poetry.^[22] In 2013, Nightboat published Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, the first comprehensive poetry collection by trans and genderqueer authors,^[23] which went on to be a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Anthologies.^[24]

• Nightboat Books Website
• UPNE > Nightboat Books Publisher Page
• Poets and Writers Nightboat Books Page