About Us

Wayfarer Books is a fiercely independent, trans-owned press publishing bold, genre-defying literature from the margins. Founded in a fair-trade café in Boston’s North End during the summer of 2009, the press launched formally in 2011 under the name Homebound Publications, and expanded in 2012 to include Wayfarer Magazine. From the beginning, the press focused on works rooted in spirituality and ecological consciousness, carving out space for reflection and stillness in a chaotic world. 

In 2024, after years of internal transformation, Homebound Publications became Wayfarer Books. Despite the odds—amid a collapsing industry, global pandemic, paper shortages, shipping disruptions, and the looming dominance of Amazon—Wayfarer has not only survived, it has endured. The press remains committed to amplifying voices often silenced by the mainstream and continues to publish poetry, essays, nonfiction, and uncategorizable work that speaks truth from the wild margins of culture.

Wayfarer Books exists to champion the feral, the subversive, and the silenced. These are dangerous times, but they are also sacred. The press is still here. Still printing. Still refusing to look away.

Connor Wolfe (they/them) is a writer, publisher, and advocate whose work spans over two decades and fourteen titles. Publishing from the margins of literary culture, Wolfe’s work has earned six Pushcart Prize nominations, the Gold Nautilus Medal for Poetry (2015), multiple Foreword Review Book Awards, and the Nautilus Silver Medal for Poetry (2022). 

Wolfe is the founder of Wayfarer Books, an independent, trans-owned press committed to amplifying voices historically silenced by the mainstream. Their vision for literature as an act of resistance has shaped the press since its beginnings in 2011. Wolfe has served two terms on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association, delivered a TEDx Talk at Yale University, and completed a degree at Harvard University through grant-funded programs.

After coming out as nonbinary and trans, Wolfe stepped further into national conversations around mental illness, erasure, and creative survival. Holding a degree in Psychology, they also studied Photojournalism under Samantha Appleton, former White House photographer for the Obama administration, sharpening their practice of bearing witness and telling the stories that often go unseen.

In 2024, Wolfe volunteered in the Collections Department of the Museum of Anthropology at Ghost Ranch, assisting in the preparation of sacred objects for repatriation under the revised Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. After wintering off-grid in the high desert in the foothills of Pedernal, they are once again in motion, traveling with their three-legged black cat, Momo, writing, documenting, and continuing the long walk home.