Mission
Red Bridge Press publications take risks for readers who want to be surprised, delighted, and challenged. We select excellent, engaging writing from new and established authors and adhere to the highest editorial and production standards to deliver beautifully designed books in print and electronic formats.
Red Bridge Press is committed to creating long-term value for readers and authors. For authors, we provide an extraordinary publishing experience focused on developing your talent and your career. For readers, we offer uncommon and uncommonly satisfying books in the format of your choice. Our long term goals include reducing waste and carbon emissions from book production and distribution and redistributing profit equitably to authors.
Learn More about Our Publications
Red Bridge Press is committed to creating long-term value for readers and authors. For authors, we provide an extraordinary publishing experience focused on developing your talent and your career. For readers, we offer uncommon and uncommonly satisfying books in the format of your choice. Our long term goals include reducing waste and carbon emissions from book production and distribution and redistributing profit equitably to authors.
Learn More about Our Publications
- Announcing our new online journal Rivet: The Journal of Writing That Risks.
- Intellectually adventurous and elegantly designed, Red Bridge books delight readers with literature full of humor and humanity.
People
Liana Holmberg, Editor in Chief
Liana is the love child of traditional publishing and internet start-up culture. She began her career at the award-winning Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing as Assistant Managing Editor. She served next as Production Editor at the University of Hawai`i Press and then Art Director at the premier open-access journal Public Library of Science. She is a graduate of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and a freelance editor. Liana holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Hawai`i, where she studied with the surrealist poet Faye Kicknosway. Liana writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her award-winning work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets anthology New Voices, the alternative newspaper Honolulu Weekly, and a variety of online and print literary journals (more here).
Liana is the love child of traditional publishing and internet start-up culture. She began her career at the award-winning Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing as Assistant Managing Editor. She served next as Production Editor at the University of Hawai`i Press and then Art Director at the premier open-access journal Public Library of Science. She is a graduate of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and a freelance editor. Liana holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Hawai`i, where she studied with the surrealist poet Faye Kicknosway. Liana writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her award-winning work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets anthology New Voices, the alternative newspaper Honolulu Weekly, and a variety of online and print literary journals (more here).
Deborah Steinberg, Editor
Deborah Steinberg’s writing has been published in Shelflife, Café Irreal, Blood and Thunder, and other journals. A founding editor of Red Bridge Press, she lives in San Francisco, where she facilitates writing workshops with a focus on healing. She also sings in the women’s a cappella group Conspiracy of Venus. Learn more.
Deborah Steinberg’s writing has been published in Shelflife, Café Irreal, Blood and Thunder, and other journals. A founding editor of Red Bridge Press, she lives in San Francisco, where she facilitates writing workshops with a focus on healing. She also sings in the women’s a cappella group Conspiracy of Venus. Learn more.
Seth Amos, Editor
Seth Amos writes and lives in San Francisco. His poetry, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Sixers Review, Dark Sky, and others.
Seth Amos writes and lives in San Francisco. His poetry, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Sixers Review, Dark Sky, and others.
Lavonne Leong, Editor at Large
Lavonne Leong lives in Honolulu. As an award-winning writer and editor, she has tracked down politicians, hunted insects, haunted archives, undangled participles, and performed bypass surgery on storylines. She holds a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University and has been a contributing editor for Honolulu Magazine and Hawaii Business Magazine.
Lavonne Leong lives in Honolulu. As an award-winning writer and editor, she has tracked down politicians, hunted insects, haunted archives, undangled participles, and performed bypass surgery on storylines. She holds a doctorate in English literature from Oxford University and has been a contributing editor for Honolulu Magazine and Hawaii Business Magazine.
Thank You
We thank the many people who support Red Bridge Press through their interest in genre-defying literature. We want to thank a few people specifically for the generous gift of their time and expertise:
- Readers: Charles Kermit Playfoot, Joshuah McDonald, and Barry Dixon. Volunteer videographer Chad Liffmann.
- Book designer Tina Henderson.
- And for advice and encouragement along the way: writer Ethel Rohan, Pete Mulvihill of Green Apple Books, and agent April Eberhardt.
Our Story
Red Bridge Press laid its foundations in December 2010 when Liana Holmberg and Deborah Steinberg were gigging at literary readings in San Francisco. They quickly recognized a kindred aesthetic and a shared passion for bringing great, cross-genre writing to an audience hungry for intrepid ideas and inimitable voices. In May 2012, they co-founded Red Bridge Press. The first call for submissions went up in September, 2012, and by the time submissions closed in December, almost 500 authors had sent in work. The resulting anthology, Writing That Risks: New Work from Beyond the Mainstream, was published in July, 2013, and features 29 award-winning and emerging authors from around the world. In February, 2014, the Press launched its online magazine Rivet: the Journal of Writing That Risks.
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Sponsor of the Mokule'ia Writers Retreat, located on the North Shore of O'ahu, Hawaii.
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Proud supporter of Bookstore Day.
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