Ugly Duckling Presse

Ugly Duckling Presse is an American nonprofit art and publishing collective based in Brooklyn, New York City that publishes small to mid-size runs of poetry, translations, lost works, and artist's books. It was founded in 1993 by Matvei Yankelevich as a college zine before expanding to publishing other works in 1995. A micropress, the company uses distribution methods not traditionally seen in publishing, such as subscriptions, and gathered its early audience with guerilla marketing techniques.

Publications
Ugly Duckling Presse (UDP) focuses on new, international, and "forgotten" writers and specializes in projects that may be difficult to produce at other presses. Formats produced include full-length books, chapbooks, and broadsides. These formats, along with UDP's magazine and newspaper, all contain handmade elements. The Presse states that these, "call attention to the labor and history of bookmaking".

Past publications include Nets by Jen Bervin, erasure poetry of Shakespeare's sonnets, Poker by Tomaž Šalamun (which was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation) and works by New York based writers Steve Dalachinsky and Lewis Warsh. The Presse also publishes a regular series of translations of Eastern European poetry. Publications include works by Czech poet Ivan Blatný and Russian conceptualists Dmitri Prigov and Lev Rubinstein.

In collaboration with various visual and performance artists, Ugly Duckling Presse also creates "paperless" works. These may be performed, or produced through media such as digital video, CD, or tree bark.

Premises and personnel
The Presse maintains a small workshop and letterpress studio in the Gowanus neighborhood in Brooklyn. Volunteer led, its current members are Phil Cordelli, G.L. Ford, Ellie Ga, Yelena Gluzman, Garth Graeper, Ryan Haley, James Hoff, David Jou, Filip Marinovic, Anna Moschovakis, Julien Poirier, Nick Rattner, Linda Trimbath, Genya Turovskaya and Matvei Yankelevich.