founded 1978 headquarters tallahassee united states key people publisher linda hill supervising editor katherine v. forrest products women s fiction books revenue n a website spinstersink.com founded in upstate new york in 1978 by maureen brady and judith mcdaniel spinsters ink is one of the oldest lesbian feminist publishers in the world . it is currently owned by publisher linda hill who purchased the spinsters ink in 2005 . 1 hill also owns bella books and beanpole books . contents 1 history 2 titles 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit spinsters ink was founded by brady and mcdaniel and moved to san francisco in 1982 where it was purchased by sherry thomas . 2 the early history of spinsters ink is closely tied up with that of another feminist publisher aunt lute books . 1 spinsters ink merged in san francisco with aunt lute book company in 1986 to form spinsters aunt lute . the aunt lute foundation was established as a non profit publishing program in 1990 and the two companies separated again . in 1992 spinsters ink was purchased by lesbian feminist philanthropist joan drury and moved to minneapolis . 2 3 in 2001 spinsters ink moved to denver colorado under sharon silvas who brought back into print the classic feminist utopian novel the wanderground by sally miller gearhart . 4 the press is currently owned by linda hill and employs katherine v. forrest as editorial supervisor . 4 titles edit spinsters ink has published many well known women authors including sheila ortiz taylor minnie bruce pratt paula gunn allen elana dykewomon judy grahn audre lorde gloria anzald a val mcdermid and cherr e moraga . it has released several lambda literary award winning books such as why can t sharon kowalski come home two bit tango and cancer in two voices as well as the bestselling look me in the eye old women aging and ageism . 2 it received a publisher service award from the lambda literary foundation . in 2012 when we were outlaws a memoir of love and revolution by jeanne cordova won the publishing triangle judy grahn award 5 for lesbian memoir . current writers include lambda literary award winners julia watts and katherine v. forrest . sheila ortiz taylor continues to publish with spinsters ink . its current catalog includes general dramatic and genre fiction for women and lesbians . 6 see also edit aunt lute books bella books references edit a b press release spinsters ink s legacy to live on march 1 2005 quoted 1 a b c hoshino edith s. feminist publishing in international book publishing an encyclopedia editors philip g. altbach & edith s. hoshino 1995 routledge isbn 1 884964 16 8 p134 young stacey . changing the wor l d discourse politics and the feminist movement routledge 1996 isbn 0 415 91376 4 p44 a b spinsters ink http www.publishingtriangle.org 2 spinsters ink current catalog and publishing philosophy external links edit spinsters ink retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title spinsters ink & oldid 654719370 categories book publishing companies based in floridafeminist book publishing companiesfeminist organizations in the united stateslesbian culture in new yorklesbian feminist literaturelesbian organizations in the united statespublishing companies established in 1978lgbt in new yorkfeminism in new york navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 april 2015 at 02 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view