Soft Skull Press is an
independent book publisher founded by
Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009, and Denise Oswald from 2009 to 2010. In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to
Counterpoint LLC, who closed Soft Skull's New York operation in 2010. Soft Skull continues to function as an imprint of Counterpoint in
Berkeley, California. It is distributed to the book trade by
Publishers Group West.