West Virginia University Press is the only university press, and the largest publisher of any kind, in the state of West Virginia. A part of West Virginia University, they publish books and scholarly journals by authors around the world, with a particular emphasis on Appalachian studies, history, higher education, the social sciences, and interdisciplinary books about energy, environment, and resources. They also publish works of fiction and creative nonfiction, and collaborate on innovative digital publications, notably West Virginia History: An Open Access Reader.
Community across Time
Robert Morgan’s Words for Home
One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.
- Copyright year: 2023
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom
How teachers can help combat higher education’s mental health crisis.
- Copyright year: 2023
American Energy Cinema
Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.
- Copyright year: 2023
In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me
Stories
For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love.
- Copyright year: 2023
Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene
A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist.
- Copyright year: 2023
The In-Betweens
A Lyrical Memoir
The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black and Jewish families—a “brilliant, devastating book.”
- Copyright year: 2023
The Fifth Border State
Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.
- Copyright year: 2023
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility
The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai‘i
How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.
- Copyright year: 2022
Picture a Professor
Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning
A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
- Copyright year: 2022
Bratwurst Haven
Stories
Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.
- Copyright year: 2022