One question,
every book.

Daniel J Henry is the founder of Grassman Publication, an independent small press dedicated to releasing nonfiction that takes ordinary readers seriously. Before the press existed under that name, he had spent years reading manuscripts for small literary magazines and editing nonfiction book projects freelance — slowly, the imprint grew out of the conversations he had been having with writers whose work he admired but whose manuscripts were too eclectic for the acquisitions lists of the houses that had rejected them.

Henry's writing draws on an unusual dual vantage point: a working background in ecology — reading complex systems, soil biology, and the cultural habits that grow from them — alongside a stretch of former military service that taught him how a body learns to regulate itself under sustained load. Both vantage points show up in the same sentences throughout the catalog. PTSD. Solved. is written as if both jobs had been done well; Mycelium, Soil, and the Future of American Farmland is written as if both had been done slowly.

He writes for working readers — people who have never been invited into the primary literature of a given field and who have begun, quietly, to suspect they should be. The books refuse both the popular panic and the academic shorthand. They are short. They are evidence-grounded. They are written from the voice of an ordinary middle-aged American who has stopped being willing to take the cultural catechism of the moment on faith, and who would like a careful, shame-free framework for thinking about what is true about the human spirit, the body, the soil, or the economy.

He lives with his family in the southeastern United States, and most of the reporting and consultation work for the catalog was done in the same region. The catalog is open-ended by design — it keeps growing so long as the question underneath it stays alive.