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Founded in 1995 in New York City, and named for the seven authors who committed to a home with a fiercely independent spirit, Seven Stories Press publishes works of the imagination and political titles by voices of conscience. While most widely known for its books on politics, human rights, and social and economic justice, Seven Stories continues to champion literature, with a list encompassing both innovative debut novels and National Book Award–winning poetry collections, as well as prose and poetry translations from the French, Spanish, German, Sweish, Italian, Greek, Polish, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, and Arabic.

Our works of the imagination feature writers like

• Nelson Algren
• Kate Braverman
• Octavia Butler
• Harriet Scott Chessman
• Linh Dinh
• Ani DiFranco
• Assia Djebar
• Ariel Dorfman
• Martin Duberman
• Alan Dugan
• Annie Ernaux
• Coco Fusco
• Barry Gifford
• Hwang Sok-yong
• Stanley Moss
• Peter Plate
• Charley Rosen
• Ted Solotaroff
• Lee Stringer
• Kurt Vonnegut

among many others.

Some of our voices of conscience include

• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
• Russell Banks
• Kate Bornstein
• Boston Women's Health Book Collective
• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Noam Chomsky
• Angela Davis
• Shere Hite
• Human Rights Watch
• Robert McChesney
• Phil Jackson
• Derrick Jensen
• Inga Muscio
• Ralph Nader
• Loretta Napoleoni
• Gary Null
• Clayton Patterson
• Benjamin Pogrund
• Project Censored
• Tanya Reinhart
• Luis J. Rodriguez
• Barbara Seaman
• Vandana Shiva
• Koigi wa Wamwere
• Gary Webb
• Howard Zinn

Free Speech and Independent Publishing

Under the direction of publisher Dan Simon, perhaps no other small independent house in America has consistently attracted so many important voices away from corporate publishing. We believe publishers have a special responsibility to defend free speech and human rights wherever we can. On several notable occasions, Seven Stories has stepped in to publish—on First Amendment grounds—important books that were being refused the right to publish for political reasons, including Dark Alliance by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gary Webb, Citizen Newhouse by Carol Felsenthal, The Others by pseudonymous Saudi Arabian lesbian author Seba al-Herz, and All Things Censored by distinguished journalist and death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Each year we also publish an annual compilation of censored news stories by Project Censored. Features of this series include the Top 25 Censored News Stories of the year—which has a history of identifying important neglected news stories and which is widely disseminated in the alternative press—as well as the "Junk Food News" chapter and chapters on hot-button topics for the year.

Seven Stories also maintains a publishing partnership with Human Rights Watch through the yearly publication of the World Report, a preeminent account of human rights abuse around the world—a report card on the progress of the world's nations towards the protection of human rights for people everywhere.

Literature in Translation and Anthologies of Contemporary Foreign Fiction

Seven Stories is an important publisher of works of literature in translation, including The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis by Vassilis Vassilikos, The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong and Jean Giono's The Solitude of Compassion. We have introduced new translations of underappreciated classics like Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov, while also seeking works by emerging international voices, like Céline Curiol’s Voice Over and Johan Harstad’s Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in all the Confusion?

Pamphlet Publishing

In 1997, Greg Ruggiero brought to Seven Stories the Open Media series, a pamphlet publishing effort he had cofounded in 1991 in opposition to the Gulf War. Producing a wide array of critically acclaimed and bestselling scholars, dissidents, and artists—including Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Robert McChesney, Allen Ginsberg, Nancy Chang, and Subcomandante Marcos—In 2001, the series expanded to a larger format called Open Media books in 2001. The first in the new format was Noam Chomsky classic, 9-11. Recent pamphlets by Seven Stories Press include Coco Fusco’s A Field Guide for Female Interrogators and Howard Zinn’s The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency.

Women's Health

Seven Stories publishes notable works in the area of women's health and contemporary feminism, partly through the efforts of late Seven Stories author and advisory board member Barbara Seaman, one of the founders of the Women's Health Movement. Included in this part of our publishing program are books by Rebecca Chalker (The Clitoral Truth), two books by Leora Tanenbaum (Slut and Catfight), and Arlene Huysman's The Postpartum Effect: Deadly Depression in Mothers. Seven Stories also publishes work by alternative/women’s health expert Gary Null, including For Women Only! (by Gary Null and Barbara Seaman), Be A Healthy Woman (by Gary Null and Amy McDonald), and Women's Health Solutions.

Siete Cuentos

Launched in 2000, Seven Stories' Spanish-language imprint, Siete Cuentos Editorial, represents a major ongoing effort on the part of Seven Stories to introduce important English-language texts to Spanish-language readers. Siete Cuentos has published Spanish-language editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves (Nuestros cuerpos, nuestras vidas) and Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (La otra historia de los Estados Unidos.) Siete Cuentos has published new and classic works of literature by Ariel Dorfman, including Death and the Maiden (La muerte y la doncella) and Heading South, Looking North (Rumbo al sur, deseando el norte), as well as fiction by Ángela Vallvey and Sonia Rivera-Valdés.

Seven Stories Advisory Board

Currently, the Seven Stories Advisory Board consists of:

• Dore Ashton
• Russell Banks (succeeding Roslyn Zinn)
• Athol Fugard
• Juris Jurjevics
• Raoul Peck (succeeding Kurt Vonnegut)
• Bernice Johnson Reagon
• Toshi Reagon
• Peter Sellars
• Claire Tisne
• Minky Worden (succeeding Barbara Seaman)
• Howard Zinn