👠 We are excited to publish our first book! The Red Shoes She Wore is an illustrated collection of six short interviews with women about a special pair of red shoes. In this work, author and illustrator Aya Karpińska reminds us that what we wear on our feet communicates something essential about our relationship to ourselves and the spaces we move through.

Publication Date: April , 2025

ISBN# 979-8-218-62819-2 (5.5 x 8.5, 56 pp, paperback)

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$24.00 includes shipping within the US, payment via Venmo: @aya-karpinska or PayPal: paypal.me/technekai. Include name and mailing address in the payment comment. ✉️
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Issue Two has gender as its theme. This edition includes work by contributing artist Cindy Jeffers, (mis)communications in work and love, and illustrations drawn from myth, alchemy, and early modern science.

Issue One documents two artists' collaboration during the pandemic: a commissioned work of machine learning poetry, queer algorithmic readings, and social media musings.

811 is an experimental press dedicated to creative partnership across language, technology, and the human and non-human world, founded by Aya Natalia Karpińska (@technekai) and Meredith Noelle Finkelstein (@hackerm0m).

The name comes from the Dewey Decimal Classification for U.S. libraries, where call numbers 800–899 designate literature and rhetoric; 811 is the poetry section.

We'd love to hear from you: info@811press.com