Pioneers Press

Founded in 2012 following a split from Portland-based publisher Microcosm Publishing by publisher/editor Jessie Duke and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with its distribution center on a farm outside the town of Leavenworth, Kansas, Pioneers Press is a publishing house that according to its website's "about us" focuses "on survival and sustainability on the farm and in the city, in addition to health, gender, sexuality, social justice and food movements, and literary works by up-and-coming authors." Called "the certifiably badass bookbinders from the prairies of Kansas" by Fast Company magazine, The press has released titles that have made the best-seller lists of various independent bookstores, including Powell's Books' #1 best-selling small press title of 2013, 2014, and 2015 The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherf*ckin' Sad). Called by Entropy Mag one of the "Best Small Presses of 2015",