Three collections of poetry rooted in the landscapes and voices of the American South & Appalachia — water, weather, hunger, and the small things that hold a place together.
Short films with Andrew reading his own work — poems set against the woods and water that made them.
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Visual Work
Found Poems
Alongside the books, Andrew makes found and erasure poetry — language lifted from old magazines and field guides, cut and recomposed by hand across the images that carried it. A selection of recent pieces.
Tap any piece to look closer
Andrew Mack
About
An editor's eye, a poet's ear.
Andrew Mack is a poet and the founder and managing editor of Loblolly Press, an independent Southern literary publisher in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the author of three poetry collections — Weekend Revival, What the River Was, and Beasts of Chase — work grounded in the rivers, ridgelines, and small towns of the American South and Appalachia.
A graduate of Winthrop University, where he studied literature and language and received the Undergraduate Writing Award, he co-facilitates the Dark City Poets Society in Black Mountain, North Carolina — hosting a monthly open mic night and a monthly critique meeting for the writers who gather there.
Based in
Asheville, North Carolina
Education
B.A., Literature & Language — Winthrop University, magna cum laude
Community
Co-facilitator, Dark City Poets Society
Press
Founder & Managing Editor, Loblolly Press
On the Work
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Readings & Events
Date Due811.6 · MAC
Author / Title
Dark City Poets Society
Black Mountain, NC · Newcomers welcome
DateGathering
MonthlyOpen Mic Night
MonthlyCritique Meeting
For festival readings, bookstore events, and campus visits, get in touch.
Studio · Book Design & Editorial
Making books, from manuscript to spine.
Alongside his own writing, Andrew takes on select editing and design work through Loblolly Press — the same hands behind the imprint's catalog. A small number of projects a year, given real attention.
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Selected work · Designed & produced for Loblolly Press
Tiered discounts of 15–25% for Appalachian and Southern small presses, small nonprofits, and mutual-aid projects. If the work is in service of the region and the writing, let's talk — the rate should never be the reason a good book doesn't get made.
Availability
Limited — 2–3 projects a year. Everything is priced by quote once we've talked through the manuscript.
Design and editorial projects are offered independently and are separate from Loblolly Press. Commissioning this work is not a submission to the press and in no way implies an offer of publication.
Thank you — message received.
Andrew reads every inquiry personally and will be in touch. For anything urgent, email andrew.mack@loblollypress.com.
Start a project
Tell me about your book.
A few sentences about the manuscript and where it's headed is plenty to start.
The Newsletter
New poems, new books, notes from the press.
Occasional letters from Andrew and Loblolly Press — no noise.
At the Bookshop
The Loblolly shelf on Bookshop.org
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