About Amphorae
We are driven by our commitment to our authors and to the art of writing. Our goal is to publish emerging and established writers contributing to the diversity of the written word. As a business, we seek collaboration opportunities that facilitate the success of businesses within the publishing industry.
Amphorae Publishing Group is a woman- and veteran-owned business. Amphorae was created in 2014 with the merger of Blank Slate Press and Walrus Publishing. In 2018, Amphorae acquired Goldminds Publishing and later acquired Reputation Books. Through these imprints, Amphorae has worked with authors across the United States to publish titles over a wide range of genres. Amphorae authors have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, New York Journal of Books, Historical Novels Review, Foreword Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and many others. Amphorae’s titles have also won many awards including multiple Benjamin Franklin awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association, multiple IPPYs, multiple Foreword Indie awards, a Willa Award for Editing, and a DaVinci Eye award for cover design.
We are actively publishing Historical Fiction, Mystery/Thriller titles.
Our staff is dedicated to protecting the author’s work and the creative process. To that end, we have included clauses in our publishing contract related to generative artificial intelligence, permissions for use of published materials, and other publishing rights. Amphorae will not provide any work for the purpose of training Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning Models (ML) nor will Amphorae use Generative Artificial Intelligence to develop a work of a similar type of a published work. In designing book covers and creating marketing materials for our authors, Amphorae reserves the right to make use of select Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator design tools (e.g., expanding an image) that make use of Generative AI processes, but will not create covers that are totally generated by artificial intelligence.
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Lisa Miller is the Publisher and Managing Editor. She has worked at Amphorae Publishing for the past 11 years in various roles. Other work includes Director of Strategic Communications, Knowledge Manager, Corporate Communications Lead, and Assistant Professor of English. She has an M.A. in English from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis. She retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Army Reserve in 2017.
Brynlee Wolfe is our Production Manager. She’s also a freelance editor, a fiction writer, and a habitual over-committer to new books and shiny jewelry. She holds a BA in English Literature and a minor in Creative Writing, and lives in Nashville with her dog, her spreadsheets, and a lot of unread novels.
Nia Smith is our Acquisitions Editor and Publicity Director. She is a publishing graduate student at Pace University with a soft spot for romantasy and a growing stack of books she swears she’ll get to soon. She’s passionate about all things editorial and dreams of helping bring magical stories to life. When she’s not reading or studying, Nia can usually be found crafting something spooky or negotiating with her very dramatic dog, Bella.
Asya Blue is the Creative Director at Asya Blue Design. She is our go-to designer for our book covers and interior design. Asya Blue started her design journey by receiving a BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design. Much later, her education continued with an MH from Tiffin University in Art and Visual Media. For over 30 years, she has worked as a graphic designer and art director at various in-house creative and marketing departments. Currently, Asya is running her own successful multidisciplinary graphic design studio, Asya Blue Design, based in New York City, creating in both print and digital spaces, taking on projects such as books, museum exhibits, branding, marketing, publications, packaging, and much more. She has also taught graphic design courses as an adjunct instructor at a number of New York area colleges and universities. Her work can be seen at asyablue.com.
Allison Macdonald (she/her) is our Administrative Assistant. She received her BA in Linguistics and English Literature from Northwestern University in 2023. During her studies, she researched the cognitive processes involved in language production, as well as serving as Managing Editor for the Northwestern publication Scene + Heard. A Colorado native, in her free time Allison enjoys hiking, biking, and frisbee golf.
Our Interns
Alyssa Harris is our acquisitions intern. She is a recent grad in creative writing, an executive assistant, and has been published twice in her favorite student literary magazine, Journey of Southeast Missouri State University. When she isn’t staring at her endless WIPs or turning the other cheek to the blank page, she’s trying new recipes, steeping tea, or sending snail-mail letters to her friends. Alyssa is from Illinois, but dreams of Missouri river towns.
Daniela Montemarano is our Editorial Intern. Based in Pennsylvania, she is a student at Kutztown University majoring in English with minors in professional writing, women’s studies, and social media. Although not a creative writer herself, Daniela enjoys reading the works of her peers. She likes classics, the horror genre, and comedy. She takes on projects with a kind yet effective approach. Daniela’s writing is published in a textbook: Alternatives to Agonism: Ethical Approaches to Argument in the College Composition Classroom. Her favorite pastimes are baking, exercising, and rewatching the same shows.
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