Milkweed Editions
Community Partnerships
Expanding the reach and impact of our books
At Milkweed Editions we aspire to increase the impact of all of the books we publish by connecting books with readers who may not otherwise get them. We do this work through thoughtful partnership. We also partner with organizations working in alignment with our goals of expanding the possibilities of nature writing and changing the way readers see and act in the world.
Some of our current partners include Little Free Library, Firstbook.org, Women’s Prison Book Project, and the Lupine Collaborative. If you are interested in underwriting partnership work like this or book donations to partners serving underserved communities, or to learn more about our work with these partners, please contact Jane Townsend, jane@townsend@milkweed.org, 612-215-2556.
Current Partnerships
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Little Free Library
Intended to help sustain the library selections for the Indigenous Little Free Libraries while also increasing access to the books we publish, Milkweed Editions is honored to launch our “steward sustaining” partnership by donating one copy of Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home by Chris La Tray to each of the current 82 Indigenous Little Free Libraries. We are committed to sending one new book by an Indigenous author to all Indigenous Little Free Libraries annually.
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Women's Prison Book Project
We began donating books published by Milkweed to the Women’s Prison Book Project in 2024 when we learned that we could fill some gaps in their inventory and remain committed to continuing this partnership to ensure poetry and LGBTQ+ related books are available to the readers they serve.
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Lupine Collaborative
The Lupine Collaborative is dedicated to advancing environmental and climate justice by abundantly resourcing Black women, transgender, and non-binary people to dream, ideate, and build toward a liberatory future. Milkweed has partnered with the Lupine Collaborative, offering publishing expertise and support to their climate and environmental writer-in-residence program.
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Milkweed Editions and Little Free Library launch new partnership
A locally grown collaboration with national impact: Indigenous Library Steward-sustaining Partnership
Photograph by Anna MinChris La Tray placing his book Becoming Little Shell into the new Indigenous Little Free Library at Red Lake Nation College in Minneapolis.
Milkweed Editions and Little Free Library are excited to share our new “steward-sustaining” partnership for the Indigenous Little Free Library Program.
What is the Indigenous Little Free Library Program? Little Free Library grants no-cost book-sharing boxes where needed most on tribal lands and in Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. They work with Indigenous community leaders and members to place book exchanges in locations where book access is important to improving…
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Community Partner Spotlight: Women's Prison Book Project
Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Our mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.
As a publisher, we join in thoughtful partnerships to “build an engaged community” around the books and authors we publish. Sometimes partners are community organizations, libraries, or independent bookstores who host readings with the authors we publish. And sometimes our partners are organizations with connections to specific communities of readers that we may not otherwise reach…