Adonis Designs Press

Adonis Designs Press is a small independent book publisher whose mission is to bring to print high-quality literature.

What We Publish 

• James Alexander MacDonald Poetry Book Award

• Navigating The Maze

• and other books

We publish non-fiction and poetry books.

Poetry submissions are only accepted in conjunction with the James Alexander MacDonald Poetry Book Award and the teen anthology Navigating the Maze.

The non-fiction books we like to publish fall into our areas of interest including: self-help, how-to, travel, dogs, spirituality, photography, inspiration and gardening. 

Memoir submissions are not accepted at this time.

With that being said, we are eclectic in taste and always looking to support those that we feel need to have their voice and words in print to the benefit of others.

Who We Are

Editor

Anita Stienstra was educated at DePauw University and the University of Illinois at Springfield, receiving a BA and MA in English with a concentration in poetry and poetics. Beyond her MA, she has numerous credit hours in computers, photography, and education. She has published and edited the teen poetry anthology Navigating the Maze for over ten years, in addition to the books, Integral Lines, Light, and Mosaics II. Other experience includes teaching writing and literature at two colleges, editing, writing and photographing for a weekly newspaper, working in public television, designing and producing numerous marketing materials for non-profits and organizations, and facilitating several writing and literacy workshops. She has over 56 poems, many articles, and numerous photographs published in anthologies, newspapers, and reviews, and has published six chapbooks: Shifting Focus, Selected Poems, Capturing Apparitions, Whispering English Trees, The Lord's Chapbook, Men Were Never Mourned as You.

Associate Editor

Lindsey Buis received degrees in English, Communications, and Cinema from DePaul University in Chicago. While attending school, she wrote for the school newspaper, volunteered for the Boys and Girls Club, taught English to inner city youth, and traveled to Skid Row in Los Angeles, CA to help the homeless.