About
An independent press in Alabama.
Why we're here.
Humans have a short time on this planet. One way we grow is to learn from the people who came before us — their fears, their faith, their hard-won knowledge. Some of that wisdom ends up in books. A lot of it doesn't, because the people who carry it don't have agents or platforms or marketing budgets.
We started Nifty Girl Press to change that. We publish books worth passing down — whether that's a thriller about what happens when we stop asking questions, or a framework for understanding what you actually believe. Different shelves, same purpose: knowledge that outlasts the person who wrote it.
The horse that started it.
The press is named for a sorrel quarter horse registered as My Nifty Girl. For years she was boarded at stables around Birmingham — until her owner bought a thirty-acre farm just to give her a permanent home. She lived there for twenty-two years, grazing the same pastures every day. She passed in 2015.
Nifty Girl Press is dedicated to her memory and the story she left behind. Her story lives here and so can yours.
still grazing, somewhere —
The team.
Lesley S. Cox
Founding Editor