Simon & Schuster will handle U.S. and Canadian sales and distribution for the University of New Mexico Press, effective July 1.
Founded in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press is one of the oldest university presses in the West and is a founding member of the Association of University Presses. The Press publishes commercial and scholarly books, Southwest regional books, and fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for general audiences worldwide; it is committed to publishing historically underrepresented voices of the Southwest and borderlands, including seminal works of Chicana/o and Native literature by writers such as Rudolfo Anaya and N. Scott Momaday. Under the UNM Press and High Road Books imprints, the Press also publishes books for children and adults, and it is a leading publisher of books for scholars in the fields of Native Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Archaeology, Literary Criticism, and Latin American history.