Indigenous 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.

Cover for Desert Teeth — Boderra Joe, Desert Teeth (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022).

Cover for Languages of Our Love — The Languages of Our Love: An Indigenous Love and Sex Anthology (Abalone Mountain Press, 2024).

Cover for My Body Is an Ill-Fitting Costume Chapbook — Rachael Johnson, My Body Is an Ill-Fitting Costume Chapbook (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022).

Cover to The Trickster Riots — Taté Walker and Ohíya Walker, The Trickster Riots (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022).

Cover for Heartbeats — Kinsale and Alice Mao, Hummingbird Heart, Pink (Abalone Mountain Press, 2022).

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.

Cover for The Diné Reader An Anthology of Navajo Literature — Esther G. Belin et al., Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature (Tuscan: University of Arizona Press, 2021).

Cover for the September 2022 issue of the journal Poetry. — Poetry, September 2022.

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