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.
Kate Partridge is the author of the poetry collections Thine (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2023) and Ends of the Earth (U. of Alaska Press, 2017). Her poems have appeared in FIELD, Yale Review, Pleiades, Michigan Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and other journals. She is a graduate of the MFA program at George Mason University and the PhD in creative writing & literature at the University of Southern California. She lives in Denver, where she is an Assistant Professor of English at Regis University.
Alyse Knorr is the author of the poetry collections Ardor (Gasher Press 2024), Mega-City Redux (Green Mountains Review 2017), Copper Mother (Switchback Books 2016), and Annotated Glass (Furniture Press Books 2013). She also authored the non-fiction book Super Mario Bros. 3 (Boss Fight Books 2016) and the poetry chapbooks
Epithalamia (Horse Less Press 2015) and Alternates (dancing girl press 2014). She received her MFA from George Mason University, where she co-founded Gazing Grain Press. Alyse teaches English at Regis University.