ABOUT US

Sky Blue Press was conceived in 1996 when its editor, Paul Herron, had accumulated nearly 500 pages of work from more than 60 contributors for the book Anais Nin: A Book of Mirrors, an anthology of reactions to Nin’s life and work. Instead of letting a university press editor perform the inevitable surgery to the manuscript, Herron decided to publish it himself.

Since then, Sky Blue Press has published the works of Stéphane Mallarmé, Daisy Aldan, Sharon Spencer, Benjamin Franklin V, Barbara Kraft, Britt Arenander, and most importantly, Anais Nin herself, initially in the form of the 1939 edition of The Winter of Artifice. It produced 15 volumes of the annual A Café in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal and an anthology of the series. Since late 2009, Sky Blue Press has been digitally publishing Anais Nin's fiction and published digital and print versions of The Portable Anais Nin and two volumes of The Quotable Anais Nin.

Sky Blue Press partnered with Swallow Press for three publications, including two unexpurgated diaries (Mirages and Trapeze), as well as Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940.

One of the most valuable publications by SBP is a long-lost collection of Nin erotica, Auletris, which was privately printed as five copies in 1950 and had been unknown to the public until 2016.

Besides printing a collection of Nin's letters to Lawrence Durrell (1937-1977) and an anthology of Gunther Stulmann's ANAIS: An International Journal (1983-2001), Sky Blue Press is releasing the final two unexpurgated diaries: The Diary of Others, 1955-1966 (October 2021); and A Joyous Transformation, 1966-1977 (October 2022).

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