Photo: Statue of Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of mechanical movable type, Place Gutenberg, Strasbourg.
Select Titles Published
Fiction
Ripple Meets the Deep, Jason Tinney (CityLit Press, 2014)
Habana Libre, Tim Wendel (CityLit Press, 2013)
City Sages: Baltimore, Jen Michalski, Ed. (CityLit Press, 2010)
The Fountain of Highlandtown, Rafael Alvarez (Woodholme House, 1996)
Ivan & Adolf: The Last Man in Hell, Stephen Vicchio (Woodholme House, 1997)
Poetry
Clash by Night, Gerry LaFemina and Gregg Wilhelm, eds. (Lo-Fi Poetry Series, CityLit Press, 2015)
Asphalt, Rebekah Remington (Judged by Marie Howe, CityLit Press, 2013)
Every Bit of It, Katherine Bodgen (Judged by Tom Lux, CityLit Press, 2012)
It Can Be Solved by Walking, Jennifer Wallace (CityLit Press, 2012)
Famous, Bruce Sager (Judged by Dick Allen, CityLit Press, 2011)
An Easy Place / To Die, Vincent Cellucci (CityLit Press, 2010)
Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone, Laura Shovan (Judged by Michael Salcman, CityLit Press, 2010)
Nesting, Erin Ruzicka Trondson (Poetry Judged by Tim Houghton, Apprentice House, 2010)
Supposing for Instance, In the Space-Time Continuum, John Pursley III (Judged by Lia Purpura, Apprentice House, 2009)
A Time Before Slaughter, Paul A. Nelson (Apprentice House, 2009)
My Father’s Speech, Katherine Cottle (Judged by Reginald Harris, Apprentice House, 2007)
Nonfiction/Photography
A Peachy Life: Waiting on Tables and Beating the Odds in the ’60s—An Italian-American Woman’s Story, Leonora “Peachy” DiPietro Dixon (CityLit Press, 2011)
Crossroads: Lives & Legacies of Baltimore Jazz, Mark Osteen, Ed. (Apprentice House, 2010)
Who Killed Donte Manning? The Story of an American Neighborhood, Rose Marie Berger with Foreword by Jim Wallis (Apprentice House, 2010)
Flashes in the Night: The Sinking of the Estonia, Jack A. Nelson (Apprentice House, 2010)
Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder, Charles F. Dambach (Apprentice House, 2010)
Deranged: Finding a Sense of Place in the Landscape and in the Lifespan, Jill Sisson Quinn (Apprentice House, 2010)
Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a Disability, Edited by Diane Scharper (Apprentice House, 2009)
Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death, Adrianna Amari, Photography with Poems by Daniel Berrigan and Introduction by Howard Zinn (Apprentice House, 2007)
* Garnered the last endorsement given by Kurt Vonnegut
Bodine’s Chesapeake Bay Country, Photographs by A. Aubrey Bodine, Edited by Jennifer Bodine (Tidewater Publishers, 2005)
* Acclaimed photojournalist, Sunday Sun, 1924-1970
Out of the Fog: The Sinking of the Andrea Dora, Allot Mattsson, English Translation Edited by Gordon W. Paulsen and Bruce G. Paulsen (Tidewater Publishers, 2003)
Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe, Leo Bretholz and Michael Olesker (Woodholme House, 2000)
Down on the Shore: The Family and Place that Forged a Poet’s Voice, Adele V. Holden (Woodholme House, 1999)
Fighting Chance: Journeys Through Childhood Cancer, Harry Connolly with Dr. Curt I.Civin and Foreword by Tom Clancy (Woodholme House, 1998)
KAL Draws a Crowd, Kevin Kallaugher (Woodholme House, 1997)
* Political cartoonist for The Sun and The Economist
Spiritual Living in Secular Society, Archbishop William Donald Borders (Cathedral Foundation, 1996)
The Papal Visit: Pope John Paul II in Baltimore (Cathedral Foundation, 1995)
Children’s/YA
Battle Creek: A Tale of Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Maryland, Neil Didriksen (CityLit Press, 2013)
Perry’s Baltimore Adventure: A Bird’s-Eye View of Charm City, Peter Dans and Kim Harrell (Tidewater Publishers, 2004)
Majesty from Assateague, Harvey Hangman and David Aiken (Tidewater Publishers, 2003)
Favorite Presses
(Certainly not comprehensive, certainly not in any sort of order...)
Algonquin "formerly" of Chapel Hill (can't believe I never got to have lunch with Shannon Revenel and Louis Rubin)
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of Pittsburgh Press (especially its poetry series)
Arbiter Ring Publishers (ARP Books)