About us

The press publishes the following series:

The Legacy Series publishes a new and emerging voice in fiction each Fall season. Since 1984.

The Portage Poetry Series publishes a new and emerging voice in poetry each Spring season. Since 2019.

The Wisconsin Heritage Series publishes new editions of important and forgotten Midwestern regional texts, especially those published before 1923. New editions feature annotations, introductory historical essays, and forewords/afterwords by contemporary scholars. Since 2018.

The J. Baird Callicott Environmental Humanities Series publishes collections of essays by emerging or established scholars in environmental studies. Since 2018. Peer-reviewed. 


Executive Staff


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Ross K. Tangedal, Ph.D.
Director & Publisher

Dr. Tangedal has been Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Cornerstone Press at UWSP since 2016. He specializes in American print & publishing culture, with emphasis in book history, textual editing, bibliography, and authorship, American writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Midwest. He is co-editor, with Joshua M. Murray, of Editing the Harlem Renaissance (Clemson UP; forthcoming 2021). His work has been published in multiple journals, including South Atlantic Review, the Hemingway Review, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Authorship, MidAmerica, and Midwestern Miscellany, as well as in various essay collections. He has edited new editions of Ring Lardner's The Big Town (forthcoming, 2020), John Herrmann's Foreign Born (2018), and Charles McCarthy's The Wisconsin Idea (2019, with Jeff Snowbarger). He is a contributing editor for the NEH-funded Hemingway Letters Project (Cambridge UP), where he is associate editor of volume 6: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway (1934–1936) (forthcoming, 2021), and he is the senior essays editor for Scholarly Editing (the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Documentary Editing). He is the 2018-2019 recipient of the University Scholar Award at UWSP. 



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Jeff Snowbarger, MFA
Executive Editor

Jeff Snowbarger is Associate Professor of English at UWSP. He has been featured in Tin House as their New Voice in Fiction, and Best American Short Stories 2010 declared his story “Bitter Fruit” one of the year’s notable publications.  He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received the Truman Capote Fellowship and served as a distinguished Post-Grad Teaching Fellow. At UWSP he teaches advanced fiction, intro to creative writing, and freshman and sophomore English. He directs the annual High School Writers' Workshop at UWSP, which draws 150-200 regional high school students to campus for workshops, plenaries, and community building.








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Alexis Neeley
Development Coordinator

Alexis has been with the press since 2017. She has served as an editor, proofreader, outreach intern, and marketing assistant for The Appointed Hour (Susanne Davis, 2017) and Ecological Reflections (Clint Jones, 2018). She served as a marketing intern at Worzalla Publishing (Stevens Point, WI) prior to graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 2018 (BA, English). She is responsible for developing public-private partnerships and grant opportunities for the press, along with supervising awards submissions. She lives in Hudson, Wisconsin, where she works for Little Free Library.