F ormed in 1999, Mansfield Press made its debut into the publishing world in May 2000 with four books of poetry by accomplished writers Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Margaret Christakos, Corrado Paina and Ann Shin.
Publisher Denis De Klerck established Mansfield during a time when many multinational publishing companies were clustering together and getting bigger-making the hands-on, independent publishing that fosters so much new and important writing, harder and harder to find. Since then Mansfield Press has become one of the best places to find groundbreaking and challenging work. With a strong focus on poetry, Mansfield Press is dedicated to nurturing a new generation of writers and introducing them to the world.
Located in the heart of Toronto’s Little Italy, with strong local community ties, Mansfield Press helps foster the important exchange between writers and readers, whether they meet in person, or on the page.
Editor Stuart Ross has been involved in literary publishing for over thirty years. He maintains his own micropress, Proper Tales, and is the co-founder of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair and a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective. Stuart is the author of seven books of poetry, two story collections, a book of personal essays, and a novel. He has given writing workshops across the country and, for the past two decades, has edited books for both literary and trade publishers. He was the 2010 Writer in Residence at Queen’s University, and the same year he won the ReLit Prize for Short Fiction.
Stuart joined Mansfield in 2007 and now has his own imprint, “a stuart ross book,” through which he brings exciting and unusual poetry, fiction, and non-fiction to the press.
