Microcosm Publishing is Portland’s most diversified publishing house with a focus on the colorful, authentic, and empowering. Their books and zines have put your power in your hands since 1996, equipping readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around them. Microcosm emphasizes skill-building, showing hidden histories, and fostering creativity through challenging conventional publishing wisdom with books and bookettes about DIY skills, food, bicycling, gender, self-care, and social justice. Publisher’s Weekly’s #1 fastest growing publisher of 2022 and #3 of 2023. Global labor conditions are bad, and their roots in industrial Cleveland in the 70s and 80s made them appreciate the need to treat workers right. Therefore, Microcosm books are MADE IN THE USA.