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Caribbean & Diaspora Storytelling

Independent · Caribbean & Diaspora

We publish the stories the record left out.

Fiction and cultural writing rooted in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean, and the Black diaspora — published on our own terms, out of our own House.

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The Drowning of Maya Sinclair

Nikki Woods · Literary Fiction

The river keeps what the family will not.

A homecoming to Portland Parish. A sister lost to the water, and a family that has never agreed on what the river took that day — or what it gave back.

Nikki Woods turns to Jamaican folklore and the old stories of River Mumma to ask what grief inherits, and what water remembers on our behalf.

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A Maroon House is one nobody else holds the deed to.

The Maroons built free towns in the interior of Jamaica and governed them themselves. We took the name on purpose. Maroon House Press is independent by design — we choose the books, we set the terms, and no one outside the House decides which of our stories is marketable.

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We publish literary fiction, mystery, romance, folklore-driven work, and nonfiction across the Caribbean and the diaspora. The catalog is wide on purpose. A reading life is not one genre deep, and neither is a culture.

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