Back in November, Galileo’s editorial director, Barrett Warner, was interviewed by Kit Frick for The Sapling. Here’s how it begins:
SAPLING: Galileo Press was founded in 1979 and has been publishing books for over forty years. Can you tell us a bit about the press’s origins and your role with Galileo?
BARRETT WARNER: The press started in after hours jam sessions by MFA students who also had music and studio art backgrounds at the University of Arizona—a cohort working mostly with Norman Dubie. Julia Wendell (poet) and Jack Stephens (novelist) and our first book designer Chuck Martin led the way. After migrating to the Iowa Writing Workshops the sessions morphed into a regular salon …
Go here if you’d like to read the whole interview, which gives a deep history and future glimpse of the press.
