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Black Radish Books is an avant-garde, non-profit publisher of experimental writing, mostly poetry, located in San Francisco, California. Its masthead lists Nicole Mauro and Marthe Reed, both poets and educators, as co-publishers.

Established in 2009 by Nicole Mauro, Black Radish Books operates as a collective of invited author-members. These author-members, who are well-established poets with extensive publication histories, contribute various talents other than the literary to help publish books. The collective began with 16 members, and now consists of 10, including co-publisher Marthe Reed, and co-editors/authors Carrie Hunter, Mark Lamoureux, James Maughn, Marci Nelligan, Jill Stengel, jared hayes, Mackenzie Carignan, and j/j hastain. In addition to publishing author-members, Black Radish Books, via an open reading period, is scheduled to publish works by Sarah Mangold, Valerie Witte, David James Miller, Brittany Billmeyer-Finn, Jen Tynes, and Jesse Nissim in 2015-2016, in addition to works by author-members hastain, Hunter, and Lamoureux.

Black Radish Books have been reviewed in Kirkus, Rain Taxi , Jacket, Jacket2 , Harriet, a blog of The Poetry Foundation , Third Factory , and Philly Sound , among others. Their anthology, Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children (2014), edited by author, and member-at-large Dana Teen Lomax, received funding through a Small Press Traffic Award, and a Kickstarter campaign. Kindergarde is the co-winner of the Johns Hopkins University Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry, to be formally announced in January, 2015. http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jtthomas/LandUAward.html