About Streetcar Press

Streetcar Press publishes convenient, accurate, inexpensive posters and chapbooks on subjects where controversy sometimes clouds understanding. We don't claim not to have opinions, but we do promise that anything we publish is a result of thorough and enthusiastically broad research and debate.

Do we only do serious stuff? Not at all. We also publish poetry about staplers and a growing range of stickers. And you can expect to see more of the same as our product line grows.

Who are we? A small group of information geeks lead by Rustin Wright, a former production and data management consultant to companies like Time, Inc., McGraw-Hill, Time Out Magazine, Index Magazine, and J. Crew. All of us have a passion for understanding what makes a phenomenon tick and an equally fervent passion for language.

Where is Streetcar Press? More of us are in or near Portland, Oregon than any one other place, though we are very much a virtual company, with folks in Ontario, New York, and Wisconsin.

Where can you buy our stuff? Various independent bookstores carry one or more of our products, as does Microcosm. You can also order direct from us.

Anything else I should know? Well, whenever possible, our products are done on the most ecologically responsible materials we can get, printed digitally or with soy ink, and produced by small independent businesses, mostly in or near Portland.

Why “Streetcar” Press? Because streetcars are small, useful, inexpensive, used by many sorts of people, and go to all sorts of places. And also because we are planning to publish a range of products about transit, with a focus on rail. And because streetcars are cool.