Gunpowder Press is honored to have published books by the following poets:
- Fred Arroyo (Alba and Other Songs, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2024)
- Kellam Ayres (In the Cathedral of My Undoing (2024), Spacks Prize Winner)
- Aaron Baker (Posthumous Noon, 2018 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Christopher Blackman (Three-Day Weekend (2024), Dryden-Vreeland Prize Winner)
- Michelle Bonczek Evory (The Ghosts of Lost Animals, 2019 Spacks Prize Winner)
- David Allen Case (The Tartnation of Faust (2014); Before Traveling to Alabama (2023))
- Nan Cohen (Unfinished City, 2017, Dryden Prize Winner)
- Todd Copeland (Like All Light, 2021 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Meghan Dunn (Curriculum, 2020 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Keith Ekiss (Burial Fragments, 2024 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Glenn Freeman (Drinking with O’Hara, 2019 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Lee Herrick (In Praise of Late Wonder, California Poets Series, 2024)
- Catherine Abbey Hodges (Instead of Sadness, 2015 Spacks Prize Winner; Raft of Days, 2017; and Empty Me Full, 2024)
- Gabriel Ibarra (On Display, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2023)
- Holly Karapetkova (Dear Empire, 2024 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Susan Kelly-DeWitt (Gatherer’s Alphabet, California Poets Series, 2022; Frangible Operas (2024)
- Joshua McKinney (Sad Animal, John Ridland Poetry Prize, 2024)
- Sandra McPherson (Speech Crush, California Poets Series, 2022)
- Florencia Milito (Sor Juana, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2023)
- Kurt Olsson (Burning Down Disneyland, 2017 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Jim Peterson (Original Face, 2015)
- Catherine Esposito Prescott (Accidental Garden, 2022 Spacks Prize Winner)
- Peg Quinn (Mother Lode, 2020 Editors’ Choice)
- Nicholas Reiner (Levitations, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2022)
- Amelia Rodriguez (The First Amelia, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2024)
- Crystal AC Salas (Grief Logic, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2022)
- Dennis Schmitz (Our Music, California Poets Series, 2022)
- Gary Soto (Downtime, California Poets Series, 2023)
- Barry Spacks (Shaping Water, 2015)
- SM Stubbs (Learning to Drown, 2025)
- Chryss Yost (Mouth & Fruit, 2014)
Gunpowder Press also publishes anthologies by California poets as part of the Shoreline Voices Project.