In 2016, the Press started Amethyst Editions, a queer imprint curated by Michelle Tea that champions emerging queer writers who employ genre-bending narratives and experimental writing styles, and complicates the conversation around American LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a coming out narrative. Tea's collection "Against Memoir" won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay in 2019. Brontez Purnell, whose novel "Since I Laid My Burden Down" was also published by the Amethyst Editions imprint, received a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2018.