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OUR CREW
YesYes Books has been publishing provocative collections of poetry, fiction, and experimental art since 2012. We look for work that acknowledges and celebrates our passionate, complex, and boundless natures.
In recent years, YYB titles have received national awards including the Lambda Award for Gay Poetry, Lambda Award for Bisexual Poetry, Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry, American Book Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Milt Kessler Award, Eric Hoffer Award, John C. Zacharis Award, Julie Suk Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and Devil’s Kitchen Reading Prize. Our titles have also been included in numerous finalist/semifinalist standings and best book lists such as the National Book award Longlist, the Lambda Award for Transgender Poetry, National Jewish Book Award, Believer Book Award, Balcones Poetry Prize, Norma Farber First Book Award, Publisher's Weekly Best Debuts of the Year, Boston Globe Best Poetry Books of the Year and many others.
With books that are as beautiful to hold as they are to read, YesYes Books engages an international community of writers, artists, and readers.
KMA Sullivan
Publisher
kmasullivan@yesyesbooks.com
KMA Sullivan is the author of two poetry collections: Inclined to Riot (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019) and Necessary Fire, winner of the St Lawrence First Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2015). Her poems and essays have appeared in Boston Review, Southern Humanities Review, diode, The Rumpus, Forklift, Ohio, The Nervous Breakdown, Gertrude, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies in creative nonfiction and poetry at Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Summer Literary Seminars. KMA is the founder and publisher of YesYes Books.
Amber Rambharose
Social Media Editor, Instagram
Karah Kemmerly is a queer writer and fiber artist who grew up in northern California and completed her MFA at Oregon State University. Her poems appear in HAD, Breakwater Review, and Redivider, and her debut chapbook, warm-blooded, is forthcoming from Ethel in Fall 2023. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches at the community college and makes zines with Conjunction Press. You can find more info about her at karahkemmerly.com.
James Sullivan
Senior Editor, Fiction
James Aiken Sullivan is a former technology writer who now works in the tabletop gaming industry. His published work covers topics from cloud architecture to cybersecurity. He lives and writes in Portland, Oregon alongside his large orange cat, Christopher Rubbins.
Gale Marie Thompson is the author of Mountain Amnesia (Colorado CLP, 2024) which won the 2023 Colorado Poetry Prize, Helen or My Hunger (YesYes Books, 2020), Soldier On (Tupelo Press, 2015), and two chapbooks. Her poetry and prose has appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House Online, jubilat, and Mississippi Review, among others. A winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2022 Emily Dickinson Award, Gale has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is founding editor of Jellyfish Poetry and co-host of the arts advice podcast Now That We’re Friends. Gale lives in the mountains of North Georgia, where she directs the Creative Writing program at Young Harris College.
Jill Kolongowski
Manuscript Copyeditor
Jill Kolongowski is a nonfiction writer and professor living in Northern California. She is the author of a collection of essays called Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me (Ulysses Press, 2017). Other essays are published in Brevity, Sweet: A Literary Confection, River Teeth, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California. Jill has received fellowships to attend the DISQUIET International Literary Program, Lit Camp, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her essays have won Sundog Lit’s First Annual Contest series and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket. She is at work on a new essay collection about anxiety and disaster.