Phylum Press is an independent publisher of poetry pamphlets and chapbooks founded in 2000 by Nancy Kuhl and Richard Deming. Based in New Haven, CT, the editors of Phylum Press fund the publications and give them away, aiming for "a balance between an artist book... and the standard poetry book" and "committed to the belief that poetry is a gift economy."*

Kuhl is Curator of Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. She earned an MA in English literature from Ohio University, an MFA in poetry from Ohio State University, and an MLS from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Deming is a poet, art critic, and theorist, and is Director of Creative Writing for the English Department at Yale University. He earned a BA in English at State University of New York at Brockport, an MA in English at Ohio University, and a Ph.D. in American Literature and Poetics from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

* Phylum Press website