About us

Named after a place that wasn't there — until it was.

Agloe was a fictional town, drawn into 1930s maps by cartographers as a trap for copycats. Decades later, someone opened a store at the spot the map described — and Agloe became real. We publish books in that same spirit: the invented thing, made true by someone willing to build it.

Our approach

Small list. Close editing. No shelf required.

We publish a handful of books a year, each edited closely with the author over months, not weeks. We don't sort submissions by genre before we read them — we sort them by whether the voice is one we can't put down.

If a manuscript needs a poetry collection's patience or a thriller's pace, we follow it there. That's why our list moves between literary fiction, speculative work, memoir, poetry, and illustrated books without apology.

Currently reading for

→ Literary & speculative fiction
→ Poetry collections
→ Memoir & narrative nonfiction
→ Illustrated / children's

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41.9552° N, 74.9282° W
Agloe, NY — still on some maps, still nowhere at all.

Our authors

The people on our list

A small, growing roster of writers across genres.

Shaunasy Holloway

Shaunasy Holloway is an independent author and creator based out of Agloe Publishing. Of Ash and Hive is her debut novel, blending history and urban fantasy into character-driven low fantasy that brings magic into the real world. A historian by training, she has spent nearly a decade honing her craft, channeling a lifelong fascination with the past, forgotten lore, and the supernatural into fiction that feels as researched as it is imagined, building immersive worlds one secret at a time.

Adult Literary Fiction

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Keith Pashby

Author of The Little Sweetheart. Keith grew up on an Iowa farm, where long winters left him with no shortage of stories. His debut children's fairy tale follows a rescue through an enchanted wood — and he's already deep into his next adventure, The King's Ransom, with plenty more waiting to be told.

Illustrated & Children's

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Faust Grimm

Author of Witness of the Cruentus, the first in a planned trilogy that tells its story through the eyes of rabbits and hares. Faust has been writing since elementary school, and had both a short horror story and a poem published in high school. Inspired by Watership Down, folklore, and a long fascination with horror, they are already shaping the next two books in the series. Based on the West Coast of Oregon, Faust is endlessly drawn to symbolism: the shelves are full of books that dissect it, the browser is full of tabs explaining it, and the sketchpads are cluttered with it.

Speculative Fiction