Anaphora Literary Press was founded in 2009, and to-date it has released over 250 creative and non-fiction books. Jere Krakoff's novel, , is a finalist in 2016 Foreword Indies: Humor (Adult Fiction) competition. John Paul Jaramillo's collection of short stories, , received an honorable mention for the Latino Literacy Now's Mariposa Award Best First Fiction Book Award. Anaphora books have been featured in national newspapers and on major network broadcasts. The and have published interviews with best-selling and award-winning writers and filmmakers, such as Geraldine Brooks and Larry Niven. Dr. R. Joseph Rodríguez received the 2015 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship's Award for his PLJ article, "There Are Many Rooms."