Tia Chucha Press

Tia Chucha Press is one of the country’s leading small cross-cultural presses, focused on socially engaged poetry and literature that matters that began in 1989 with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez’s first book, “Poems Across the Pavement.”

In 1991, TCP became the publishing wing of the nonprofit Guild Complex Literary Arts Center in Chicago, run by Michael Warr and co-founded in 1989 by a collective of artists, writers, and activists, including Luis J. Rodriguez.