Slough Press is an American small press publisher. They publish fiction, poetry, and non-fiction by marginalised writers. [1] They also publish authors from Cajun or Chicano backgrounds.[2]
Charles "Chuck" Taylor, Jr. founded Slough Press with Susan Bright in 1973, after moving to Texas from the Midwest. Taylor moved the press to El Paso when he was hired at the University of Texas at El Paso. Bright left the press at this time and later founded Plain View Press in Austin. As of 2017, Slough Press was operating out of Austin.
Several Slough authors have received awards and gained national recognition, including Marion Winik, Pat Littledog, and Mick White.[3] Recent writers on their roster include Ricardo Sánchez, Hedwig Gorski, Christopher Carmona. Slough also published satirical Latino poet José Montalvo's collections Black Hat Poems (1987) and Welcome to My New World (1992).[4] [5]