About PWP

J. E. Cooper & R. Hoffman
[Photo Credit: Michael Anthony Pegues]

Poets Wear Prada, also known as PWP Books, founded in 2006 and based in Hoboken, New Jersey, is an independent, traditional house devoted to promoting emerging writers, publishing beautifully designed volumes of well-crafted poetry -- and now fiction -- you want to read and re-read by authors you'll want to follow. Founded by former Wall Street investment banker Roxanne Hoffman with her late husband, Herbert Fuerst, a retired Hollywood agent, Poets Wear Prada is now run by Roxanne Hoffman and John "Jack" Edward Cooper.

To view an excerpted interview with Ms. Hoffman by Host Anne Cammon from a two-part program about the press, titled "Poets Wear Prada on the Air," featuring the publisher and several  authors, aired on Ms. Cammon's Friday evening show Art Waves, August 24th & September 7th in 2007, broadcast (pre-recorded) from WKCR FM NY (89.9 FM /  www.wkcr.org), click the play button on the video player below:


R. Hoffman, WKCR FM NY,  2008 [Credit: 607/Streaming Video by Mitch Corber, Thin Air Video]

Click here to read about Poets Wear Prada in New Jersey's
The Star-Ledger, Thursday June 26, 2008, Today, p. 55 (continued on p. 61), "Small is beautiful: Independent presses make the books the old-fashioned way" by Sarah Golin, Star-Ledger Staff.