Summary
Check out Abalone Mountain Press!
Since its inception in January 2021, Abalone Mountain Press (https://www.abalonemountainpress.com) has published several phenomenal compilations of poetry and zines. Amber McCrary, the founder, operates the press on operates on the traditional lands of the Akimel O’odham.[1]
To delight, this semester (Spring 2025), UC Berkeley’s Doe Library put in an order for five of Abalone Mountain Press’s recent publications. The chapbooks, anthology, and zines will be located in Doe Library’s main stacks.
Take a look at these or other Abalone Mountain Press books in our UC Berkeley Library.
Additional Material
Several of these authors contributed to The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature. You can find an interview with Amber McCrary about the Press in the September 2022 issue of Poetry.
- Amber McCrary et al., “Interviews with Indigenous Publishers,” Poetry, March 2022, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/158411/interviews-with-indigenous-publishers;
- Amber McCrary, “About,” Abalone Mountain Press, accessed April 16, 2025, https://www.abalonemountainpress.com/about.