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.
Bratwurst Haven
Stories
Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.
- Copyright year: 2022
Imperium in Imperio
A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics.
- Copyright year: 2022
Curing Season
Artifacts
“A lovely and rapturous excavation and examination of the past, a lesson in writing oneself into history when it doesn’t offer you a space.” —Jenny Boully, author of Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life
- Copyright year: 2022
Almanac for the Anthropocene
A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures
Original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as ways to resist hopelessness in response to the climate crisis.
- Copyright year: 2022
Inclusive Teaching
Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom
Award-winning teachers offer practical tips for addressing inequities in the college classroom and for making all students feel welcome and included.
- Copyright year: 2022
Foote
A Mystery Novel
“Part mystery, part fable but all original, Jim Foote is sure to be one of your favorite literary detectives—cryptid or otherwise.” —Jordan Farmer, author of The Poison Flood and The Pallbearer
- Copyright year: 2022
Teaching Matters
A Guide for Graduate Students
A practical and evidence-based teaching guide for graduate students across all fields.
- Copyright year: 2022
A Year without Months
“A beautiful, powerful book. Read it and be changed.”—Jim Minick
- Copyright year: 2022
Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology
Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World
What does memory mean for learning in an age of smartphones and search engines?
- Copyright year: 2022
Lioness
A Novel
“Darkly compelling.” —Tom Perrotta
- Copyright year: 2022
Hungry Town
A Novel
“A literary page-turner. . . . Part Cormac McCarthy, part Tom Drury and Raymond Chandler, Kapcala has created a voice all his own.” —Brian Castleberry
- Copyright year: 2022
Another Appalachia
Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
- Copyright year: 2022
Rogues in the Postcolony
Narrating Extraction and Itinerancy in India
An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.
- Copyright year: 2022
African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.
- Copyright year: 2022
Slow Fuse of the Possible
A Memoir of Poetry and Psychoanalysis
An engrossing and beautifully crafted memoir of imagination, obsession, and disaster from the couch of old-fashioned four-times-a-week psychoanalysis.
- Copyright year: 2022
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist.
- Copyright year: 2021
Engaging the Atom
The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present
Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society.
- Copyright year: 2021
Perfect Dirt
And Other Things I've Gotten Wrong
Recounted with humor and honesty, Lester invites us into his life as he struggles with masculinity and searches for a place where he fits.
- Copyright year: 2021
A Union for Appalachian Healthcare Workers
The Radical Roots and Hard Fights of Local 1199
History at the intersection of healthcare, labor, and civil rights.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Harlan Renaissance
Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns
A personal remembrance from the preeminent chronicler of Black life in Appalachia.
- Copyright year: 2021
Rock Climbing in Kentucky's Red River Gorge
An Oral History of Community, Resources, and Tourism
Tells the fascinating story of the Red’s climbing community through interviews with the people who lived that history and considers how sustainable ecotourism might contribute to the region economically.
- Copyright year: 2021
Past Titan Rock
Journeys into an Appalachian Valley
A classic book about Appalachian life and music, now updated with new material.
- Copyright year: 2021
On Dark and Bloody Ground
An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
An oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
- Copyright year: 2021
Cannel Coal Oil Days
A Novel
A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement.
- Copyright year: 2021
American Vaudeville
A dreamlike, evocative reckoning with a lost epoch in popular culture—and with old, weird America.
- Copyright year: 2021
Skim, Dive, Surface
Teaching Digital Reading
Students are reading on screens more than ever—how can we teach them to be better digital readers?
- Copyright year: 2021
Fierce and Delicate
Essays on Dance and Illness
Memoir about ballet and illness from a creative writing teacher whose career as a ballerina was stopped by rheumatoid arthritis.
- Copyright year: 2021
Minding Bodies
How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning
What happens to teaching when you consider the whole body (and not just “brains on sticks”)?
- Copyright year: 2021
Remaking Appalachia
Ecosocialism, Ecofeminism, and Law
A critical legal scholar uses feminist and environmental theory to sketch alternate futures for Appalachia.
- Copyright year: 2021
Ghosts of New York
Literary novel with a New York setting and a dash of speculative fiction, for fans of Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, and Dana Spiotta.
- Copyright year: 2021