Mission
Switchback Books challenges gender inequity in literary publishing by producing and promoting books of poetry by women and non-binary authors. Publishing exclusively women and non-binary poets comprises a feminist act. We aim to change the unbalanced ratio of genders represented in literary publishers’ catalogs, making women’s voices and perspectives accessible to the literary community and the general public.
Editors
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Mackenzie Carignan (she/her) is a creativity consultant and coach at her practice, Creative Vision Lab. She lives with her family in the beautiful foothills of the Colorado Rockies where she currently serves on the Broomfield Arts, History, and Cultural Council. She has been involved in writing and publishing her own poetry and the work of others for nearly 30 years and has been part of many projects, including Black Radish Books, Dusic Chapbook swap, Listenlight online poetry journal, the Fusion Project collaborative arts organization, and many more. She has a Ph.D. in English from University of Illinois at Chicago, and her book, a house without a roof is open to the stars, is available through Black Radish Books. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals, including South Dakota Review, Acta Victoriana, Another Chicago Magazine, the columbia poetry review, poetry is currency ($), Jet Fuel Review, and many more.
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Becca Downs (she/they) is a Denver-based writer, editor, and educator who earned her MFA from the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University. They're a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of Acid Rain Epithalamium (Beyond the Veil Press 2024). She's managing editor at Treeline Review and formerly a reader for The Rumpus.
Rachel Stempel is a Ukrainian-Jewish poet and winner of Boulevard Magazine’s 2024 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets. She is the author of the chapbooks Interiors, winner of the 2021 Wallace Award from Foundlings Press, BEFORE THE DESIRE TO EAT (Finishing Line Press, 2022), and Dear Abbey (Bottlecap Press, 2022). She lives in Binghamton, NY with her rabbit, Diego.