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Dedicated to Artistic Integrity
Lit Fox Books, a nonprofit press based in Austin, TX, is a woman-owned organization dedicated to preserving authors’ artistic visions in a supportive environment. We’re happy to offer opportunities for writers that require zero fees, including a poetry book award, a poetry residency, a quarterly poetry series, and an interview series.
Although we are highly selective, our commitment is to be approachable to every writer, regardless of their publication history, audience size, educational background, or previous accolades.
To preserve authors’ artistic vision by providing a supportive, selective, and fee-free publishing environment that values integrity, accessibility, and bold literary work.
Core Literary Programs
Fee-Free Opportunities
Poetry Book Award
Poetry Residency
Our Editorial Leadership
From strategic direction to manuscript selection and poetry curation, our editorial team ensures every publication reflects our standards of excellence, creativity, and integrity.
Board Members
Lisa Mottolo is the founder of Lit Fox Books and the author of the poetry collection How to Monetize Despair (Unsolicited Press, 2023). She has attended writing programs at UC Berkeley and Kenyon College, and her work has appeared in Penn Review, The Laurel Review, Diagram, Santa Clara Review, Stonecoast Review, Louisiana Literature, and others.
Anthony DiPietro is a gay sex poet and arts administrator originally from Providence, Rhode Island. He has lived throughout New England and in California, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee. A graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing, he also earned a creative writing MFA at Stony Brook University. Now serving as deputy director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, he resides in Worcester, MA. He composed his chapbook, chapbook, And Walk Through (Seven Kitchens Press, 2021), on a typewriter during the pandemic lockdowns. kiss & release (Unsolicited Press, 2024), his debut collection, was longlisted for a Mass Book Award in Poetry. He is also the 2025 winner of the Frank O’Hara Prize from the Worcester County Poetry Association.
William Barker runs a used book business in New Jersey. He is the author of two collections of poetry and four chapbooks. Most recently, he released Under the Water of My Shadow Music (2023, Alien Buddha Press) and Cupping the Muck (2025, Crying Heart Press). His poetry has appeared in anthologies through Silver Birch Press, River Dog Press, Laughing Ronin Press, Newington Blue Press, and Between Shadows Press. His poems have appeared in Soup Can Magazine, Heroin Love Songs, Trailer Park Quarterly, the Literary Underground and many more. He is currently working on several new chapbooks, and a full-length collection.
Managing Editor
Candice Louisa Daquin is a trauma-psychotherapist & editor. Her activism’s been working in crisis and immigrant centers & in editorial capacities on urgent projects including: We Will Not Be Silenced; SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like & The Kali Project. As an ardent feminist, her mixed-race Egyptian/French background & the experience of being a queer immigrant, impact her intention to be the change she wants to see. Daquin edits for; Indie Blu(e) Publishing, Raw Earth Ink, Queer Ink; Tint Journal; The Pine Cone Review; Parcham Literary Magazine; Life & Legends Magazine & River Paw Press. She co-judges The Northwind Writing Award & The Silent River Poetry Prize & regularly inks for World Literature Today, Different Truths, and Borderless Journal. Daquin holds an MFA in Creative Writing & after 3 poetry collections, her debut novel, The Cruelty, based upon the legacy of sexual violence, is publishing Fall, 2025 (FlowerSong Press).
Acquisitions Editor
Olivia Pierce Graham holds an MFA in Poetry from The New School. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beyond Words Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, Midsummer Dream House, Narrative Northeast, Oroboro, River & South Review, Sad Girl Diaries, Wild Roof Journal, and others. She is the author of Vestige (Press Pause Press, 2026) and Gloom of Excruciating Desires (Cherry Dress Chapbooks, 2022).
Poetry Editor
Angela Williamson Emmert has won the Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award and the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA from University of Southern Maine, and her work has appeared in About Place Journal, Atticus Review, Prime Number Magazine, Stillwater Review, and other places. A high school English teacher, she lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband and sons and can be reached at awilliamsonemmert@gmail.com
Submission Readers
Lisa Piazza is a writer, educator and mother from Oakland, Ca. Her work has been nominated for Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She currently reads poetry for The Los Angeles Review and Lit Fox Books and serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor for Porcupine Literary.
Parker Hall is a queer writer and poet from Hamilton, Ontario. She attended Brock University for English and Creative Writing. She then attended Humber College for novel writing and poetry. She is passionate about growing local writing communities through workshops and readings. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in many Brock University anthologies and in Phylum Press. Currently, she is a submission reader for The Word’s Faire and Lit Fox Books. You can check out her writing journey on TikTok and youtube (@parkerhallwriting).
