Porphyry Press
@porphyrypress.bsky.social
An award-winning literary book publisher in off-grid Alaska working across genres and latitudes. Next up: Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson (Nov 11, 2025) and Raised by Ferns by Maya Jewell Zeller (March 3, 2026).
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
We're excited to welcome author @rickirobin.bsky.social back to McCarthy to share GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES. If you're in the area, we hope to see you at this event with Erica, poet Michelle Latvala (BETWEEN LATITUDES, Green Writers Press), and @pataky.bsky.social (OVERWINTER, U Alaska Press)!
"About a decade ago, the world looked different—possible. Now, I know we are irreversibly barreling into the unknown and that safety is an illusion." @civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews Maya Jewell Zeller about Raised by Ferns (@porphyrypress.bsky.social). 🌿 buff.ly/01i2vc8
Lovely review of my pressmate Maya Jewell Zeller's book, by Nancy Lord: “Raised by Ferns” is a welcome addition both to thought about lower-income rural life and to the expansion of what we may consider as essay collections and memoir." www.adn.com/arts/books/2...
Book review: A memoir in essays interrogates the forces that shape identity
“Raised by Ferns” is a welcome addition both to thought about lower-income rural life and to the expansion of what we may consider as essay collections and memoir.
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Thrilled that @katiecampbell.bsky.social, curator of the KUOW Public Radio Book Club, selected RAISED BY FERNS as a Book Talk selection for August. Congrats to author Maya Jewell Zeller. Register via link below to attend live in person, and stay tuned for the recording to listen afterward.
Happy One Month birthday to Maya Jewell Zeller's RAISED BY FERNS!
Maya Jewell Zeller's book tour continues, starting with an appearance *tonight* at Fact & Fiction in Missoula with University of Montana MFA alum, the novelist Sharma Shields! Not to be missed by those in the area. 7 PM.
So many wonderful contributor books launching this week and last! Congratulations to Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Matthew Pitt, Maya Jewell Zeller, and @equitation.bsky.social on their newly released titles. @cmupress.bsky.social @porphyrypress.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
Thrilled about this starred review from Foreword Reviews! "Raised by Ferns is an ingenious memoir-in-essays that recalls a lifetime of determination." Pub date is just days away... March 3rd! Congrats to author Maya Jewell Zeller! www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rais...
See you in Baltimore for #AWP26? Incoming with @rickirobin.bsky.social/Ghosts of Distant Trees and Maya Jewell Zeller, whose Raised by Ferns launches March 3! Find us at Booth 1254.
What's not to love? One week from today will be Valentine's Day, when author @rickirobin.bsky.social will sign GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES at Fireside Books Alaska in Palmer from 1 to 4. Go say hi! Maybe if you're lucky she'll dot the letter i in her name with a little ♥.
Looking forward to reading during @awpwriter.org with my pressmates Reuben Gelley Neuman and Mai-Linh Hong and authors from EastOver and @porphyrypress.bsky.social. #debut2026 #AWP #memoir
Trio House Press@triohousepress.org · 6mo agoPut it on your AWP calendar! Our offsite event features readings by @joustingsnail.bsky.social, @mai-linhhong.bsky.social, @jasonprokowiew.bsky.social & authors from EastOver and Porphyry Press! More details about this event and other AWP plans here: www.triohousepress.org/upcoming-eve...
Love this profile of my publisher, @porphyrypress.bsky.social! "...piecing it together, getting by in the woods"
Anchorage Daily News@adn.com · 7mo agoAlaska Authors: Porphyry Press, operating out of Jeremy Pataky’s dry cabin in McCarthy since 2020, has so far released three books while steadily gaining momentum among readers around the state and beyond. www.adn.com/arts/books/2...
"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!
Just in time for the holidays, here are ADN reviewers’ favorite books of 2025
Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir and multiple books that interrogate the changing nature of the North.
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I guess it’s almost time for my annual “drive to Anchorage in an ice storm hellscape” trip, and this time I’ll be signing books at Title Wave on Saturday with my @porphyrypress.bsky.social pressmate John Messick. Come see us if you can? Send road reports? 😬
Don't miss @rickirobin.bsky.social, author of GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, tomorrow at the Tri-Valley Library in Healy, Alaska if you're in the area.
David James's insightful and positive book review of Erica Watson's GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES appears in both the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Daily News today. It's gratifying to see such a careful and astute take on this book.
Loving these counter display and authors market views today in Fairbanks at Solstice Books! #JohnMessick @rickirobin.bsky.social #KrisFarmen #RosemaryMcGuire
Got up to pee around 1:30 and caught this out the window. I guess this is an aurora account now.
i couldn't help myself, it was such a beautiful title and description
Day after tomorrow in Fairbanks!
Porphyry Press@porphyrypress.bsky.social · 9mo ago2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave. · FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
CLMP (Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) included GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES by Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social in their roundup of new November books from small presses! · www.clmp.org/news/books-l...
While this is getting traction: today is my book’s pub date! The cover matches these photos! Learn more bsky.app/profile/porp...
Porphyry Press@porphyrypress.bsky.social · 9mo agoHappy pub day, @rickirobin.bsky.social! To celebrate the launch of our latest title, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, we're offering 20% off online orders of anything in our store now through Saturday night with the code LAUNCHWEEK.
Celebrating the tenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth with Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup’s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.” #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry #indigenous #nativeheritagemonth #athabascan #book verastarbard.com/2025/11/10/t...
Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 10
Our tenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month celebration brings us Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup‘s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.” The unique style gives the reader a really special poetic exp…
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Happy pub day, @rickirobin.bsky.social! To celebrate the launch of our latest title, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, we're offering 20% off online orders of anything in our store now through Saturday night with the code LAUNCHWEEK.
Evening walk at the tour of the glacier, with views of Mt. Blackburn and the stairway icefall. • #AlaskaSky
