The University Press of Mississippi was founded in 1970 and is supported by Mississippi's eight state universities. UPM publishes scholarly books of the highest distinction and books that interpret the South and its culture to the nation and the world. From its offices in Jackson, the University Press of Mississippi acquires, edits, distributes, and promotes more than eighty new books every year. Over the years, the Press has published more than 1000 titles and distributed more than 2,600,000 copies worldwide, each with the Mississippi imprint.
Conversations with Gordon Lish
Interviews published from 1965 to 2015 with one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern American letters
Consuming Katrina
Public Disaster and Personal Narrative
An analysis of mismanaged representation and response after disasters
Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement
A study of white ministers who risked their pulpits and lives to challenge southern society
Riding with Death
Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
The extraordinary story of sculptors and their incredible creations in Haiti
Peter Kuper
Conversations
Collected interviews that address such varied topics as the nuts and bolts of creating graphic novels, world travels, teaching at Harvard University, Hollywood deal-making, climate change, Spy vs. Spy, New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Mad magazine, and World War 3 Illustrated
Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature
From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism
From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother
Conversations with W. S. Merwin
Interviews with the former United States Poet Laureate
Conversations with Edwidge Danticat
Collected interviews ranging from the 2000 publication of this award-winning Haitian-American author’s debut work of fiction, Breath, Eyes, Memory, to a personal interview conducted with the volume editor in 2016
Charley Patton
Voice of the Mississippi Delta
Spirited takes on a blues powerhouse and his legacy
Southern Writers on Writing
A collection of essays for writers, readers, and lovers of all things southern
Sterling Hayden's Wars
A biography of a master sailor, war hero, and one of the most unusual and troubled stars of the Golden Era of Hollywood
Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century
A turn-of-the-century map of where Faulkner studies have traveled and where they are headed
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line
How novels, plays, films, poems, and children’s literature fill the archival gaps in Black baseball’s story
Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World
A tracking of the fascinating connections between adolescence and the concerns of posthumanism