About Us

Publishing independent literature.

Stalking Horse Press is a small independent publishing house based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded 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. At first, we started seeking out marginalized voices and neglected work, but the definitions of marginal are too arbitrary, and so – at this point – we are not actively defining any kind of archetypal ‘Stalking Horse Author’ or book. The press is interested in excellent writing.