About Us
Founded in 1979, TRP: The University Press of SHSU (Texas Review Press) is committed to publishing quality poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and scholarship. TRP currently publishes sixteen titles each year.
The TRP University Press Advisory Committee serves as the editorial advisory board for TRP. The committee serves in conjunction with the Director to establish editorial policies and procedures.
Housed at Sam Houston State University, TRP: The University Press of SHSU is a member of the Texas A&M Press Texas Book Consortium, the Association of University Presses, and the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Distribution
Our titles are distributed worldwide through the Texas Book Consortium.
Staff
Director
J. Bruce Fuller, Ph.D.
J. Bruce Fuller is a Louisiana native. His chapbooks include The Dissenter's Ground, Lancelot, and Flood, and his poems have appeared at The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, McNeese Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Louisiana Literature, among others. He has received scholarships from Bread Loaf, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Stanford University, where he was a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
Managing Editor / Designer
Pete “PJ” Carlisle, Ph.D.
PJ’s cross-genre creative work has won numerous prizes–including the Internal Award for Fiction (Innovative Novel) at Bard College, the Turow-Kinder Prize (Novella), and the AWP Journals Project Award in Fiction; it has appeared in journals such as Thickets, Quarterly West, and Passages North. His book reviews have appeared in Western Humanities Review and Lambda Literary Review. He is a Fiction Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices and was awarded the Herbert Woodward Martin Post-Doc Fellow for Inclusion, Diversity, and Creative Writing at the University of Dayton.
PJ majored in art and design at NYU and taught for Horizons: The New England Craft Program (now Snow Farm) in both the Massachusetts (US) and Avignon (France) studios. Before coming to TRP, he was the Coordinator of Dayton LitFest, taught for the Antioch Writers Workshops, and was appointed Assistant Professor of English at Central State University. As a freelance editor, he has even managed color teams (via ZOOM) and designed e-books for tech companies’ proposals with the US Military, RTOC, and DOD.
He holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah where he served as Managing Editor of Western Humanities Review. Interests beyond poetry and prose include: Underrepresented Voices in the Media; Zine-Making; and Poststructuralist Feminist and Queer Theory.
Publishing Specialist
Karisma "Charlie" Tobin, MFA, MA
Charlie grew up in the mountains of New Mexico and Alaska. Her work appears in Interim, Plainsongs, and others. She has done editorial work as a reader for The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM and the Texas Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Editing, and Publishing and an MA in English from Sam Houston State University.
2023-2024 TRP Fellows
Bri Chapman, Publishing Fellow
Christina Ellison, Publishing Fellow
Britt Miller, Publishing Fellow
Bleah Patterson, Publishing Fellow
Chance Givens, Editorial Fellow
Allison Phillips, Editorial Fellow
Bonny Tunnell, Editorial Fellow
Founder
Paul Ruffin, Ph.D.
Paul Ruffin was a Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at SHSU. He was the founding editor of the Texas Review and founder and director of Texas Review Press. He authored two novels, five collections of short fiction, four books of essays, seven collections of poetry, and he edited and co-edited dozens of other books.
TRP, like most nonprofit university presses, needs outside financial support to meet its publishing objectives. TRP is committed to providing valuable resources to our university, our region, and the academic community, but we also strive to be one of the nation’s leading literary university presses. To accomplish our goals, the Press needs your support.
Please contact J. Bruce Fuller about your tax-deductible donation today!