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Our Mission

Pear Shaped Press is a feminist trade press with the main objective of bringing empowering stories about women, written (mostly) by women, to the world. While our current focus is non-fiction, our books range in genre from collections (which include essays, short stories, letters, and poetry), memoirs, journalistic non-fiction, and we will eventually publish fiction as well. Our books are aimed mostly at an adult audience, but we also wish to remain accessible to the younger generation, as we believe they are the most in need of inspiring stories about women in this day and age.

While we are a trade publisher, we will be partnering with a different non-profit organization for each of our collections. We hope to work with these organizations not only to help curate some of the content for the collections themselves, but to help them continue to empower women and girls around the country by donating half of our ebook proceeds from each project to the selected group. If you are a nonprofit organization interested in working with us on one of our upcoming collections, we would love to hear from you. Please use our contact page to get in touch with us and let us know which project you’re interested in and why you would be a good fit. If you work with a group of talented female writers and have an idea for a new collection, feel free to pitch us those ideas as well!

Ladies of Pear Shaped Press

Here at Pear Shaped Press, we run everything together as the original founders and pioneers of this unique publishing venture, but each of us brings our own unique strengths and passions to each project. Meet our team of strong, independent women publishers!

Stephanie Anderson

Co-Publisher, Director of Business & Marketing

Stephanie recently earned her Master's in Book Publishing at Portland State University. She works in exports by day, and spends her nights and weekends creating books with her friends at Pear Shaped Press. She is a single mom, obsessed with animals, architecture, and bridges, and loves anything related to design and story-telling. When it comes to publishing services, Stephanie does it all, but her loves are literary design and audiobooks. You can check out her thesis on small publishers and audiobooks on her website.

Christina Brown

Co-Publisher, Managing Editor

Christina recently earned her Master's in American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her poems and short stories have been published in places like Fight Evil With Poetry Anthology: Volume One, Broken Pencil Magazine, The Island Fox, Sammelwerk, and self-distributed zines. Her passions include but are not limited to dance, education, brunch, and fighting the patriarchy. She is a founding member of the Real Poets of Orange County, and serves as a volunteer mentor and member of the College Education team at WriteGirl in Los Angeles. When she's not stuck at home due to a pandemic, she performs her poetry around Southern California.

Megan Mimiaga

Co-Publisher, Director of Project Development

Megan has a Master's of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from California State University, Fullerton, and spends her days reciting her Oscar's acceptance speech in the shower. She interned at XYZ Films in Los Angeles, works as a Marketing Assistant with CSUF's Alumni Association and freelances as both a Production Assistant (see IMDb credits) and Digital Designer.