{{Short description|Academic publisher}}{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}}{{Infobox publisher | image = Image:New_LSU_Press_Logo,_Introduced_in_2015.jpg | image_size =200px | parent = | status = | founded = {{Start date and age|1935}} | founder = | successor = | country = United States | headquarters = Baton Rouge, Louisiana | distribution = Longleaf Services (US)<ref name=distribution/><br>Scholarly Book Services (Canada)<ref>{{Cite web| title = Our Publishers {{!}} Scholarly Books| access-date = 2017-12-02| url = http://www.sbookscan.com/publishers/| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171203014827/http://www.sbookscan.com/publishers/| archive-date = 2017-12-03| url-status = dead}}</ref> | keypeople = Alisa Plant, director | publications = books, magazines | topics = | genre = | imprints = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|http://www.lsupress.org}} }} The '''Louisiana State University Press''' ('''LSU Press''') is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of University Presses.
LSU Press publishes approximately 70 new books each year and has a backlist of over 2000 titles. Primary fields of publication include southern history, southern literary studies, Louisiana and the Gulf South, the American Civil War and military history, roots music, southern culture, environmental studies, European history, foodways, poetry, fiction, media studies, and landscape architecture. In 2010, LSU Press merged with ''The Southern Review'', LSU's literary magazine, and the company now oversees the operations of this publication.<ref name="LSUTSRMerge">{{cite web|url=http://thesouthernreview.org/about/ |title= LSU Gold Between the Lines |work=Louisiana State University}}</ref>
Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by the University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.<ref name=distribution>{{cite web |title=Client Publishers |url=https://longleafservices.org/client-publishers/ |access-date=February 25, 2023 |publisher=Longleaf Services}}</ref>
==Notable publications and awards== ''A Confederacy of Dunces'' by John Kennedy Toole was published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fiction |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Fiction |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref>
Three titles have won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: ''The Flying Change'' by Henry S. Taylor (1986), ''Alive Together: New and Selected Poems'' by Lisel Mueller (1997), and ''Late Wife'' by Claudia Emerson (2006).<ref>{{cite web |title=Poetry |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Poetry |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref>
Lisel Mueller's 1981 ''The Need to Hold Still'' won the National Book Award for Poetry that year.<ref>{{cite web |title=NBA Poetry Winners |url=http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/3/31/1981.html |publisher=The National Book Award Foundation}}</ref>
Wayne A. Wiegand and Shirley A. Wiegand- ''The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism'' won the 2019 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the Library History Round Table.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wayne and Shirley Wiegand receive 2019 Gleason book award for history of integration of Southern public libraries {{!}} News and Press Center|url = http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2019/04/wayne-and-shirley-wiegand-receive-2019-gleason-book-award-history-integration}}</ref>
Kelby Ouchley received the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 2023 for ''Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist's Memoir of Place''.
Gregg Andrews' ''Shantyboats and Roustabouts: The River Poor of St. Louis, 1875-1930 ''published in 2023 won the category of U.S. Maritime History at the John Lyman Book Awards.
==See also== {{Portal|Literature|Louisiana}} * List of English-language book publishing companies * List of university presses
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.lsupress.org/}}
{{LSU|state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}} Press Category:Publishing companies established in 1935 Category:University presses of the United States Category:1935 establishments in Louisiana