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Press Contacts

Heather Skinner: Publicist and Assistant Marketing Manager; presspr@umn.edu; Phone: (612) 301-1932; [vCard ]
Emily Hamilton: Assistant Director for Book Publishing; eph@umn.edu; Phone: (612) 301-1936; [vCard ]

Press Releases

The Stories Still Need to Be Told: A Message for Our University of Minnesota Press Community Mar 25, 2020: We believe telling the stories of Minnesota, the US, and the world is more crucial now than ever.
We believe telling the stories of Minnesota, the US, and the world is more crucial now than ever. It is our mission to do just that and we are committed to bring you our stories through, and to the other side of, this crisis. It’s the people—your engagement, your scholarship, and your ideas—that animate our work and make publishing books rewarding and important, at any moment in time.
UPDATE 3/21: A note about web orders, events, and conferences during the Covid-19 pandemic Mar 21, 2020: Orders from our website will be delayed; most author events through mid-May have been cancelled. We will update this space as we receive more information.
Most author events through mid-May have been cancelled. We will update this space as we receive more information.
Joanna Frueh, trailblazing writer, performance artist, scholar, and art historian dies at 72 Feb 24, 2020: Frueh is author of Unapologetic Beauty.

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Press Clips

The Paris Review: Letters from Tove Mar 26, 2020: Excerpt from Letters from Tove edited by Helen Svensson and Boel Westin
Somatosphere: Breathtaking Mar 19, 2020: Review of Breathtaking by Alison Kenner
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Mar 12, 2020: Review of Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson