Aunt Lute Books

Winner of the Independent Publisher Book "IPPY" Award and an American Book Award!Growing up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the lean child of working-class Chicago transplants, Judy Grahn hungered to...

The first international anthology of Filipina writers published in the United States. Babaylan reflects the complex history of a people whose roots have stretched to both sides of the globe. With...

Combining elements of the real and the fantastic, Beautiful and Dark (Bella y oscura) is written from the perspective of an orphaned girl taken to live with relatives in a derelict neighborhood at...

Call Me Woman is the autobiography of Ellen Kuzwayo, a black South African woman whose life as a social worker, woman's rights activist, politician, and more was woven in political history of South...

Winner of the Silver Medal in ForeWord Magazine's Anthology Category This anthology presents the work of over 150 young inner-city poets, reflecting on their experiences with violence and sharing...

Resisting the onslaught of gringos coming to live in their southwestern border town, Bale and Maggie develop a friendship based on their common struggle. But they differ in their future...

El Mundo Zurdo 3 gathers together diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzald?a, selected from the 2012 meeting of The...

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Border Studies. A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses...

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latinx Studies. Native American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Border Studies. Refugee Studies. Edited by Sara A. Ram?rez, Larissa M. Mercado-L?pez, and...

Edited by Sara A Ram?rez, Larissa M. Mercado-L?pez, and Sonia Sald?var-Hull. A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of...

El Mundo Zurdo 8 is a collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzald?a, selected from the 2019 meeting of The...

This collection of essays, poetry, and artwork brings together scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzald?a. The diverse voices represented in this collection are...

Rooted in a Chicana/Latina/indigenous geographic and cultural sensibility, the stories of flesh to bone take on the force of myth, old and new, giving voice to those who experience the disruption and...

This collection features over 80 essays from two decades of news, analysis, interviews, reviews, and letters from one of the nation's oldest and largest women's newspapers, Sojourner: The Women's...

The first anthology to examine the multiple facets of daughterhood in South Asian American families.The voices in this volume reveal how a Good Girl is trained to seamlessly blend professional...

Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since...

Haggadah means "the telling." The escape from Egypt is the defining legend, the central drama of the Jews. Every nation coalesces around such an epic; its people project themselves into the story,...

This is a story about Detroit in the late fifties/early sixties and the Black women and men who came North to work the lines of the Ford Motor plant. It's a story about John R. Street, the Harlem of...

Bold, funny and on the edge, Hot Chicken Wings is Jewish and lesbian to the core. Jyl Lynn Felman breaks new ground in eleven highly crafted stories about family secrets, anti-Semitism, and sacred...

In homage to Gloria Anzald?a and her iconic work Borderlands/La Frontera, award-winning poets ire'ne lara silva and Dan Vera have assembled the work of 54 writers who reflect on the complex...

The end of the Cultural Revolution in China in 1976 marked the beginning of an exciting phase of literary activity as the state loosened its grip on literature and the arts. One of the most...

A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. Making Face, Making Soul includes over 70 works by poets, writers, artists, and activists such as Paula Gunn Allen,...

Untangling knots of personal identity and family history, Nancy Agabian deftly weaves a narrative alternately comical and wrenching. Moving between memories of growing up Armenian and American in...

Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 1907, but moves back and forth from 1969 during the Vietnam War to present-day Ada. The story focuses...

This collection showcases three previously unpublished writers of great talent. Rabie Harris writes about an old Jamaican woman, put into a Texas homecare facility by her daughter. The novella keeps...

This compilation is the first comprehensive work to focus on South Asian American and South Asian immigrant women in the U.S. It represents a pioneering effort to collect the critical essays,...

This collection of 20 plays creatively explores the HIV/AIDS crisis, especially as women of color in the United States experience it. Positive/Negative looks at both individual and community issues,...

Radical Acts is an innovative compilation of essays and interviews about how feminist approaches to teaching theatre challenge and engage students, teachers, and audiences alike. Contributors include...

Carole Rio, an artist running from her past, is invited to a small Texas border town to paint murals in a church--but the church has burned down in a catastrophic fire. Carole becomes the catalyst...

Winner of the 2002 American Book AwardWhy was Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the 18th century, assassinated by his own people? Why does his death haunt Auda Billy, an Oklahoma...