When submitting a query letter, please include the following:

• The first ten pages of your manuscript
• Brief summary of your manuscript 
• Description of the intended audience and potential markets 
• Short paragraph about yourself and your publishing history 
• Contact information 
• Notify us of any content/trigger warnings. As a teaching press, graduate students often read the slush pile, so please advise us of any graphic content in your work.
   

If after reviewing your query letter and first ten pages of your manuscript we are interested in reading more, we will contact you and request a proposal package. Please do not send the full manuscript at this stage.