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About Valerie Brewster, book designer

Poetry publishers who have been Scribe clients:

American Poetry Review

BOA Editions

Copper Canyon Press

MSU Press

Silverfish Review Press

West Chester University Poetry Center

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Book Interior and Cover Design: Poetry

These are some of my recent book design projects.

  • Where there are links to interiors, you can view a sample of the book as an Acrobat PDF.
  • Book interiors and hardcover cases are best viewed in person. Contact me to have samples mailed to you.

Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
Copper Canyon Press
Cover and interior design.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Migration by W.S. Merwin
Copper Canyon Press
Cover and interior design.

Winner of the National Book Award

In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone
Copper Canyon Press
Cover and interior design.

Winner of the National Book Award


The Insomniac Liar of Topo by Norman Dubie
Copper Canyon Press
Cover and interior design.

One Big Self by C.D. Wright
Copper Canyon Press
Cover and interior design.


The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain translated by Red Pine
Copper Canyon Press
Cover and interior design. English and Chinese text.


So What by Taha Muhammad Ali
Copper Canyon Press
Cover and interior design. English and Arabic text.
Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry edited by Monica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers
Copper Canyon Press
Interior design. English and Spanish text.

The Immigrant's Table by Mary Lou Sanelli

Poems, recipes, and photos
Cover and interior design


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