Omnidawn
books have been reviewed in Publisher's
Weekly, Boston Review, Chicago Review,
American Book Review, The Village Voice,
The Midwest Book Review, The Poetry Project
Newsletter, Pleiades, Rain Taxi, HOW2,
The New Review of Literature, Small Press
Traffic Newsletter, Electronic Poetry
Review, Interim, and ARC (Canada's
National Poetry Magazine). In 2005, Martha
Ronk's In a landscape of having to
repeat, published by Omnidawn,
won the 15th Annual PEN USA Award in
Poetry. In 2003, Lyn Hejinian's The
Fatalist, published by Omnidawn,
was chosen as one of The Village
Voice's "Our 25 Favorite Books
of 2003" (December 10-16, 2003,
page 51) and was also mentioned in Publishers
Weekly's "Best Books of 2003" section
(November 17, 2003, page 36).
Omnidawn Publishing was
founded by wife and husband team Rusty
Morrison and Ken Keegan to create books
that are most closely aligned with each
author's vision, and to provide an interactive
and rewarding publishing experience for
poets and writers. We encourage authors
to participate at every point in the
decision making process of book design
and book production, and thus far all
have taken an active part, deciding on
or providing cover art and assisting
in the design of the interior of the
books. Omnidawn has been publishing poetry
since 2001, with Fabulist and New Fabulist
Fiction added in 2006.
Rusty Morrison's
manuscript the true keeps calm
biding its story won The Ahsahta
Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected
by Peter Gizzi, and will be published
in Jan 2008 by Ahsahta. This manuscript
also won the 2007 Poetry Society of
America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award,
selected by Susan Howe. Rusty Morrison's
first poetry collection, Whethering,
won the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center
for Literary Publishing 2004), selected
by Forrest Gander. She has been a recipient
of the Cecil Hemley (2006), and Robert
H. Winner (2003) Memorial Awards from
The Poetry Society of America. She
has also been a co-winner of the Five
Fingers Review Poetry Contest (2003).
Her poems, essays, or reviews have
appeared in Boston Review, Chicago
Review, Coconut, Colorado Review, Columbia:
A Journal of Art and Literature, Denver
Quarterly, Eleven Eleven, First Intensity,
The Modern Review, New American Writing,
Parthenon West, Tinfish, Verse, VOLT, ZYZZYVA,
and elsewhere. She is a contributing
editor for Poetry Flash and
co-publisher of Omnidawn.
Ken Keegan has a background
in theater, graphic design, desktop
publishing, and the
founding, management of, and consultation
for, non-profit organizations.
Rebecca Stoddard
joined Omnidawn in 2006 as Assistant
Editor. Her poems have appeared in journals
such as: Tinfish, New American Writing,
WebConjunctions, The Modern Review,
etc. Her chapbook, home(?) was
published by Noemi Press in 2004. She
has been the recipient of scholarships,
acted as assisting editor for several
small presses/publications and curated
a reading series. She received her MFA
from University of San Francisco. Rebecca
also works as a reference librarian. |