About
Letter Machine Editions is a small, nonprofit press based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States. Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the Publisher and Lisa Wells serves as Editor-in-Chief. Jake Syersak is Contributing Editor, Sasha Hawkins and Will Stanier are our interns, and Gabriel Oladipo is our reader. Kelly Andrews is our copy editor and HR Hegnauer designs our books. Our books are printed by McNaughton & Gunn.
Letter Machine was founded in 2007 by poets Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson in Denver, Colorado. Gordon left Letter Machine in 2014 to direct Subito Press for University of Colorado, Boulder.
Generally we publish just one or two books per year. To date we’ve published about twenty titles, and our books have been honored by the William Carlos Williams Award (Winner), National Book Foundation (Finalist), the LA Times Book Prizes (Finalist), the California Book Award (Gold Medal Winner), Poetry Society of America (Finalist for the Norma Farber 1st Book Prize), and the Arab American Book Awards (Honorable Mention). Letter Machine books and chapbooks have been reviewed in The New York Times, American Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacket2, Rain Taxi, The Washington Post, The Rumpus, & Vice, among many others.
Fourteen of our books have made the SPD best-seller list, including three #1 best-sellers.
Our titles, available in paperback print editions only, are available for purchase through Small Press Distribution and in the finest independent bookstores in the world.
Our sister site is a poetry journal called The Volta.