Welcome to West Virginia University Press, the largest publisher in the state of West Virginia. The Press has earned distinction in a number of areas: recent accolades include a PROSE award for Helen Kapstein’s Petroforms, the most recent entry in our Energy and Society series and a Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association for This Book is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project. Works by Deesha Philyaw and Neema Avashia round out our list of creative work in fiction and creative nonfiction/memoir.

As part of West Virginia University, we publish work of lasting value to the citizens of West Virginia, Appalachia, and the world. Our areas of specialization include award-winning fiction and creative nonfiction, scholarly works in energy, environment, labor, race, gender, West Virginia and Appalachia, and the medical humanities.