Talking with Iron Horse Prize Winner Joe Baumann
April 1, 2022
With the Iron Horse Prize submission window coming up on the horizon, we sat down to talk with the first winner, Joe Baumann. You can read more about the prize… READ MORE
Category: Author
Remembering TTUP Author Mike Cochran
January 27, 2022
Texas Tech University Press is saddened to hear of the passing of Mike Cochran. During a nearly 40-year run with the Associated Press, Cochran told the stories of Texas’s larger-than-life… READ MORE
Talking with John Erickson about Ranching and Fire
June 2, 2021
Most of you will know him as the author of the Hank the Cowdog book series, but John Erickson is also a rancher and memoirist. His newest book, Bad Smoke, Good Smoke, documents a fire that… READ MORE
Speaking with Former Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald
March 23, 2021
Throughout our 50th anniversary year, we will be reflecting on our various publishing endeavors here at Texas Tech University Press. Part of this undertaking involves a celebration of our proudest initiatives. Among them, undoubtedly,… READ MORE
TTUP Author Andy Bowman Explains Our Recent Texas Weather Apocalypse
March 8, 2021
A little while back it got really cold here in Texas. While the situation in Lubbock was not as apocalyptic as it was in places like Austin, it was still a crazy aberration in Texas weather—the kind of crazy… READ MORE
Talking Poetry and Small Press Publishing Models with Rachel Mennies
February 22, 2021
Throughout our 50th anniversary year, we will be reflecting on our various publishing endeavors here at Texas Tech University Press. We’ll celebrate the past, certainly, but we’re also hoping to reflect on our next 50 years… READ MORE
Gracious and the New Era of Southern Poetry
February 15, 2021
The new anthology of southern poetry from TTUP is called Gracious. To celebrate its release, our acquisitions editor, Travis, sat down to talk with Gracious’s editor John Poch (@jpoch) about the nature of anthology-making and… READ MORE
How to Draw Animals – A Conversation with Cover Artist Linda Feltner
February 8, 2021
Back when our acquisitions editor was a lowly professor who taught writing composition at a few universities, he always enjoyed hearing what his students’ “dream jobs” were. Every class of first-year students had a… READ MORE
Gerrymandering Texas in Action
January 19, 2021
The 2021 Texas Legislature is in Session After a very trying couple of months, during which the staff of TTUP routinely clicked “refresh” on election results and then were glued… READ MORE
Why Birding is Good for You, with B. C. Robison
November 30, 2020
B. C. Robison’s career as the “Texas Naturalist” columnist was a nuisance to many of the big developmental projects that currently dot the Texas Coast. His new book A Haven… READ MORE