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.
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