Nightboat Books, based in Brooklyn, New York, seeks to develop audiences for writers whose work resists convention and transcends boundaries, by publishing books rich with poignancy, intelligence, and risk. The press publishes poetry and prose, with a special focus on innovative and inter-genre writing, in quality paperback editions.
Nightboat Books publishes new books by emerging and established writers, reprints and collections of work by authors who have fallen out of view or are outside the mainstream, and books in English- language translation, including titles by Wilson Bueno, Édouard Glissant, Hervé Guibert, and Hilda Hilst. The press has a strong commitment to publishing books by women, LGBTQ authors, and writers of color.
Nightboat Books, since its first publication in 2005, has published titles by a diverse group of authors including Etel Adnan, Samiya Bashir, Caroline Bergvall, Brian Blanchfield, Bruce Boone, Daniel Borzutzky, Michael Burkard, Melissa Buzzeo, Christina Davis, Tim Dlugos, Stacy Doris, Andrew Durbin, Kathleen Fraser, Jasmine Gibson, Rob Halpern, Duriel E. Harris, Fanny Howe, Paolo Javier, Bhanu Kapil, Myung Mi Kim, Rosamond S. King, Joanne Kyger, Aditi Machado, Jill Magi, Dawn Lundy Martin, Bernadette Mayer, Laura Moriarty, Vi Khi Nao, Nathanaël, Bern Porter, Martha Ronk, Gail Scott, Ely Shipley, Cole Swensen, Stacy Szymaszek, Edwin Torres, Alli Warren, Orlando White, and Maged Zaher.
