Caribbean & Diaspora Storytelling
About Us
The House
Maroon House Press is an independent publisher of Caribbean and diaspora storytelling. Twenty-five titles, eleven authors, one house that answers to itself.
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. They were not given that ground. They took it, held it, and made law on it. We took the name on purpose.
Maroon House Press is independent by design. We choose the books, we set the terms, and nobody outside this house decides which of our stories is marketable, which of our readers is worth reaching, or how a Black woman on a cover ought to be drawn.
Every list has a shape, whether the publisher admits it or not. Ours is deliberate: Caribbean and diaspora writers, across genres, published without apology and without waiting for permission.
The List
What we publish
The catalog is wide on purpose. A reading life is not one genre deep, and neither is a culture.
The Publisher
Nikki Woods
Nikki Woods is the author of The Drowning of Maya Sinclair and The Strong One. She spent two decades in syndicated radio, including the Tom Joyner Morning Show, reaching millions of listeners each morning.
She is the founder of Maroon House Press, and the creator of Nervous System Capitalism™ and The Reinvention Method. She lives in Dallas, with roots in Jamaica’s Portland Parish, where the Swift River runs.
Submissions
The House is reading
We publish Caribbean and diaspora writers across literary fiction, crime, romance and nonfiction. If your work belongs here, tell us.
The Maroon House Reader
First look at every new title, straight from the publisher’s desk.
Excerpts before release, notes on what we’re acquiring, and the occasional dispatch from Jamaica. Sent when there’s something worth sending.
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