About Us

Publishing independent literature.

In the more than 10 years since the founding of Stalking Horse Press, with what agents and large press publishers tell me regularly about the risk-averse corporate milieu in which they operate right now, it is more important to me than ever that this small press exists. Beyond the narrowing aperture of the monopoly presses with their susceptibility to celebrity and AI, where can an aesthetically ambitious writer go? I started this press because I have never been in with the in crowd. And there are many, many excellent, thoughtful authors who are passed over for all of the wrong reasons.

Stalking Horse Press is a small independent publishing house based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded, edited, and produced by writer James Reich. The first titles published were D. Foy’s critically acclaimed novel Patricide, Michael J. Wilson’s debut full-length poetry collection A Child of Storm, and Jason De Boer’s experimental prose work Annihilation Songs: Three Shakespeare Reintegrations. Since then, Stalking Horse Press titles have achieved international recognition for their style and innovation in prose, poetry, and illustration. Authors have included Jennifer Maritza McCauley, David Ohle, Malcolm Mc Neill, Kurt Baumeister, Jessie Janeshek, and Duncan Barlow, to name a few. We publish authors with a fine sense of literary style, with knowledge of their field, and who take aesthetic risks.