{{Short description|American non-profit book publisher}} {{Infobox publisher |name = New Village Press |status = Active |founded = 2005 |country = United States |headquarters = New York, New York |distribution = [[New York University Press|NYU Press]] |publications = Books |website = {{url|https://newvillagepress.org}} |founder = Lynne Elizabeth (Director) |image = New Village Press.jpg}}
'''New Village Press''' is a not-for-profit book publisher founded in 2005 in the San Francisco Bay Area now based in [[New York, New York]]. It began as a national publishing project of [[Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)]], an educational non-profit organization founded in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adpsr.org/about|title=About ADPSR|website=adpsr.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref>
New Village Press books address topics in the fields of social justice, urban ecology, community development and culture such as [[community arts]], [[neighborhood commons]], and [[participatory democracy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newvillagepress.org/about-us/mission-statement/|title=Mission Statement|website=newvillagepress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref>
In 2006, New Village Press was selected as the "Best Small Publisher in the East Bay", by [[East Bay Express]].<ref>[http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/best-small-publisher-an-altruistic-press-that-makes-building--community-a-priority/BestOf?oid=1167407 East Bay Express]</ref> It partners with and is distributed by [[New York University Press]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/new-village-press/|title=New Village Press|website=NYU Press|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref>
== History == New Village Press originated as New Village Journal, a periodical published from 1999 until 2002, which focused on the revitalization of communities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newvillage.net/|title=New Village Journal: Building Sustainable Cultures|last=staff|first=new village journal|website=www.newvillage.org|language=en|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> In 2018, New Village Press incorporated as its own nonprofit, separating from [[Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility]].<ref>[http://www.adpsr.org/home/about_us About ADPSR]</ref> New Village Press began a distribution partnership with [[NYU Press]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/new-village-press/|title=New Village Press|website=NYU Press|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref> Originally based in Oakland, CA, New Village Press is now situated in New York, NY.
== Recent titles ==
*''DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice'' by Judy Karofsky (2025) *''Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations'' by [[Margaret Randall]] (2025) *''Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician'' by Alice Rothchild (2024) *''Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement'' by Fern Tiger (2024) *''Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth'' by [[Robert Shetterly]] (2024) *''See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love'' by Jan Cohen-Cruz (2024) *''The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life'' by [[Muriel Fox]] (2024). *''Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance'' by Merideth Taylor (2024) *''Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty— 30th Anniversary Edition'' by Anne Herbert, Paloma Pavel, and Mayumi Oda (2024) *''I Opened the Gate Laughing: An Inner Journey'' — 20th Anniversary Edition by Mayumi Oda (2024) *''Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World's Smallest Death Cafe'' by Mark Dowie (2024) *''Luck'' by [[Margaret Randall]] (2023) *''That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions'' edited by Leigh Sugar (2023) *''Skyscraper Settlement: The Many Lives of Christodora House'' by Joyce Milambiling (2023) *''Stuff: Instead of a Memoir'' by [[Lucy R. Lippard]] (2023) *''Zoned Out! Race Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, (Revised Edition'') edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse (2023) *''Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Vol 1 & Vol 2'' edited by Ben Fink (2023) *''Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1990-2020'' edited by Ben Fink (2023) *''Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975-1989'' edited by Ben Fink (2023) *''A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement'' by David Cortright (2023) *''In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?'' by Arlene Goldbard (2023) *''Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth'' by [[Robert Shetterly]] (2022) *''The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts Through Poetry'' edited by [[Spoon Jackson]], Mark Foss, and Sara Press (2022) *''Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind'' by Louise Dunlap (2022) *''We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons'' by Diane Rothbard Margolis (2022) *''Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an Idea'' by Aviva Rahmani (2022) *''Meeting the Moment'': ''Socially Engaged Performance, 1965–2020, by Those Who Lived It'' by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira (2022) *''Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers (Revised edition)'' by [[Margaret Randall]] (2022) *''Artists in My Life'' by [[Margaret Randall]] (2022) *''Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire'' edited by Edvige Giunta a Mary Anne Trasciatti (2022) *''Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities'' edited by Amara Geffen, Ann Rosenthal, Chris Fermantle, and Aviva Rahmani (2022) *''Cultivating Creativity'' by Iain Robertson (2022) *''Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth'' by [[Robert Shetterly]] (2021) *''Healing from Genocide in Rwanda: Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book'' by Susan Viguers and Lily Yeh (2021) *''How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories'' by John F. Forester (2021) *''In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California'' by Daniel J. O'Connell and Scott J. Peters (2021) *''Jane Jacobs’s First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania'' by Glenna Lang (2021) *''My Life in 100 Objects'' by [[Margaret Randall]] (2020) *''Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All'' by [[Mindy Thompson Fullilove]] (2020) *''A Man of the Theater: Survival as an Artist in Iran'' by Nasser Rahmaninejad (2020) *''Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe'' by [[Ann Snitow]] (2020) *''[[Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War]]'' edited by Ron Carver, [[David Cortright]] and Barbara Doherty (2019) *S''uch a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride'' by [[Nadina LaSpina]] (2019) *''In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers'' by [[Chellis Glendinning]] (2019) *''Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities'' by Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla and Mara Mintzer (2018) *''Works of Heart: Building Village Through the Arts'' by Lynne Elizabeth and Suzanne Young (2018) *''Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth by Alfredo Cardona Peña'', translated by Alvaro Cardona-Hine (2018) *''Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power'' by Ernest Thompson and [[Mindy Thompson Fullilove]] (2018) *''The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race'' by [[Carl Anthony]] (2017) *''Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts'', 2nd Edition by [[Keith Knight (cartoonist)|Keith Knight]] and Mat Schwarzman (2017) *''Root Shock'' by [[Mindy Thompson Fullilove]], New Village Press edition (2016) *''Openings'' by [[Sabra Moore]] (2016) *''Growing a Life'' by [[Illène Pevec]] (2016)
==Notable authors== * [[Carl Anthony]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/carl-c-anthony/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> architect and [[environmental justice]] activist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://breakthroughcommunities.info/about/|title=About Breakthrough Communities {{!}} Breakthrough Communities|website=breakthroughcommunities.info|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Linda Frye Burnham]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/linda-frye-burnham/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> a writer focused on performance and community arts<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://lindaburnham.com/about-me/|title=About Me|date=2011-06-29|work=Linda Frye Burnham|access-date=2017-07-31|language=en-US}}</ref> * William Cleveland,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/9780976605461/art-and-upheaval/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> director of the Center for the Study of Art and Community<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artandcommunity.com/csac/who-we-are.html|title=Who We Are|website=Center for the Study of Art and Community|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> *[[David Cortright]], American scholar and [[peace activist]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://keough.nd.edu/profile/david-cortright/|title=David Cortright|website=Keough School - University of Notre Dame|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-04}}</ref> * [[Sharon Gamson Danks]], environmental planner and founder of Bay Tree Design<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baytreedesign.com/new-team/|title=Team|website=BAY TREE DESIGN|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Mindy Thompson Fullilove]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/mindy-thompson-fullilove/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> clinical psychiatrist and educator<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/faculty-list/?id=4e54-5130-4d6a-4531|title=Mindy Fullilove - Professor of Urban Policy and Health|website=www.newschool.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Arlene Goldbard]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/arlene-goldbard/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> writer, social activist, and consultant<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arlenegoldbard.com/about-2/|title=About {{!}} Arlene Goldbard|website=arlenegoldbard.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Chester Hartman]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/chester-hartman/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> urban planner, low-income housing advocate, and academic<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umb.edu/crscad/about/bios/chester_hartman|title=Chester Hartman - University of Massachusetts Boston|website=www.umb.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Anne Herbert (writer)]], former assistant editor of ''CoEvolution Quarterly''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/anne-herbert/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> * [[Spoon Jackson]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/spoon-jackson/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> poet and writer who discovered his talent while serving a life sentence<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/life-with-poetry-but-no-parole|title=Life With Poetry, But No Parole|last=Jackson|first=Spoon|work=YES! Magazine|access-date=2017-07-31|language=en}}</ref> * James Jiler,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/james-jiler/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> executive director of Urban GreenWorks<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.urbangreenworks.org/meet-the-staff|title=Founder's Bio - Urban GreenWorks|website=www.urbangreenworks.org|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Roger Katan]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/roger-katan/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> architect and artist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/3731-building-together-case-studies-in-participatory-planning-and-community-building|title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Roger Katan & Ronald Shiffman|website=www.grahamfoundation.org|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Keith Knight (cartoonist)]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/keith-knight/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> syndicated cartoonist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kchronicles.com/bio.html|title=Bio: Cartoonist, Rapper and Multimedia Artist Keith Knight {{!}} The Official K Chronicles and (Th)ink Website|website=www.kchronicles.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> *Glenna Lang,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glenna Lang|url=https://nyupress.org/author/glenna-lang|access-date=2021-02-12|website=NYU Press|language=en-US}}</ref> illustrator, designer, and artist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glenna Lang|url=https://www.godine.com/book-author/glenna-lang/|access-date=2021-02-12|website=Godine, Publisher|language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Annie Lanzillotto]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/annie-lanzillotto/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> poet and performance artist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.annielanzillotto.com/|title=Annie Lanzillotto {{!}} L is for Lion: an Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir|website=www.annielanzillotto.com|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> *[[Nadina LaSpina]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/nadina-laspina/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> disability rights activist.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.today.com/health/national-disability-day-polio-activist-shares-struggle-living-disabilities-t162684|title='What a shame': Polio activist shares how pity can be harmful to people with disabilities|website=TODAY.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-04}}</ref> * [[Karl Linn]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/karl-linn/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> landscape architect and founder of the community garden movement in the United States<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.karllinn.org/about-1/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150106190931/http://www.karllinn.org/about-1/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 6, 2015|title=ABOUT|website=www.karllinn.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Sabra Moore]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/sabra-moore/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> artist and activist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://heresiesfilmproject.org/women/sabra-moore/|title=Sabra Moore : THE HERETICS|last=Brainstorm|website=heresiesfilmproject.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Beverly Naidus]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/beverly-naidus/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> artist and educator<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://faculty.washington.edu/bnaidus/bio.html|title=Beverly Naidus|last=Naidus|first=Beverly|website=faculty.washington.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Illène Pevec]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/illene-pevec/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> educator focusing on the development of youth gardens<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fatcityfarmers.org/about.html|title=About|website=fat city farmers, inc.|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> *[[Margaret Randall]], feminist poet and social activist<ref>{{Cite web|title=Margaret Randall|url=https://nyupress.org/author/margaret-randall|access-date=2021-02-12|website=NYU Press|language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Ronald Shiffman]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/ronald-shiffman/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> cofounder of the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pratt.edu/faculty_and_staff/bio/?id=rshiffma|title=Pratt Institute|website=www.pratt.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Judith Tannenbaum]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/judith-tannenbaum/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> writer and prison arts educator<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.judithtannenbaum.com/judith.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801000155/https://www.judithtannenbaum.com/judith.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 1, 2017|title=Judith|website=Judith Tannenbaum|language=en-CA|access-date=2017-07-31}}</ref> * [[Lily Yeh]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/lily-yeh/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> international artist<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/in-barefoot-artist-lily-yeh-confronts-painful-past-in-her-journey-to-heal-communities-through-art|title=In ‘Barefoot Artist,’ Lily Yeh confronts painful past in her journey to heal communities through art|work=PBS NewsHour|access-date=2017-07-31|language=en-US}}</ref> * [[Alfredo Cardona Peña]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/alfredo-cardona-pena/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> journalist, poet, essayist, biographer <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thebiography.us/en/cardona-penna-alfredo|title= Biography of Alfredo Cardona Peña (1917-1995)|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> * [[Louise Chawla]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/lousie-chawla/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> environmental activist with a focus on children and nature <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.colorado.edu/cedar/people/louise-chawla|title= Louise Chawla|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> * [[Ann Snitow]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/ann-snitow/|title=Ann Snitow|website=nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> writer, teacher, feminist activist<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/ann-snitow-1943-2019|title=‘Ann Snitow, 1943–2019’|work=Dissent Magazine|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> * Nasser Rahmaninejad,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/author/nasser-rahmaninejad/|title=NYU Press|website=www.nyupress.org|language=EN|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref> artist, activist, lecturer on theatre and politics <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://artandsocialspace.org/nasser-rahmaninejad/|title=‘Nasser Rahmaninejad’|access-date=2020-06-01}}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://newvillagepress.net/ New Village Press] {{Authority control}}
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