Coffee House Press, intrepid Minneapolis publisher of some of the most exciting books to come out in the past couple of years—J.M. Ledgard’s Submergence, Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, and Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station, to name just a few—is launching its first imprint next spring.

They’ve just partnered with Emily Books, the Brooklyn-based digital bookstore run by Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, which will be handling acquisitions and editorial for two Emily Books projects that Coffee House will publish—both in print and digital—each year.

Emily Books began in 2012 as a digital bookstore and subscription service that offers one ebook each month, handpicked by the company’s two founders. Among their excellent selections are Karolina Waclawiak’s How to Get Into the Twin Palms, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend and Days of Abandonment, Renata Adler’s Speedboat, and Chloe Caldwell’s Women, and they have, on the whole, been a major boon to overlooked—usually female—writers. It’s an exciting move that represents a major step for Emily Books as publishers, and also integrates Coffee House into the somewhat insular New York-centric publishing ecosystem.