Although having a magazine or other publication track record is important when submitting to Coffee House Press, it is not essential as part of the mission of this independent USA-based publisher is to publish debut authors as well as previously published authors.
This could be the publisher for your book if it is a literary novel, a full length short story collection, poetry, creative nonfiction, book-length essays or an essay collection. The occasional memoir may be considered but this won’t be your publisher for genre fiction, eg mysteries, gothic romances, Westerns, science fiction or books for children. More specifically, ‘writing that instructs, inspires and/or entertains the reader and does so with a unique voice,’ is what is wanted.