The Velvet Chair is a literary publishing house for women with something unmistakably their own to say.

We go looking for voices that have been overlooked, interrupted, underestimated, or still gathering the nerve to come forward. We want the strange detail, the difficult feeling, the unruly idea, and the sentence that sounds like nobody else.

Our editorial work protects what makes each voice singular and helps the book become more fully itself. Then we carry it toward the readers who have been waiting to hear it.