Elephant Rock Books was an independent publishing company based in Connecticut from 2010-2023.Alex Stedman, , Columbia Chronicle, November 26, 2012. The press was founded by Jotham Burrello in Chicago in 2010.Clare Kirch, "Small But Mighty Presses Prevail at ALA Awards", Publishers Weekly, February 5, 2015. Burrello decided to start the press while talking with his former teacher, Patricia Ann McNair, about her work; her book The Temple of the Air became Elephant Rock's first publication and went on to win positive reviews and several awards.
The publisher was backed by a multimedia company, Elephant Rock Productions, which handled accounting and banking.Scenes: Elephant Rock Books: An interview with Jotham Burrello by Jotham Burrello in American Book Review Volume 35, Number 6, September/October 2014 p. 28, doi:10.1353/abr.2014.0118
Books Elephant Rock published The Biology of Luck by Jacob M. Appel which won the Independent Publisher Book Award for U.S. North-East, Best Regional Fiction in 2014.
Elephant Rock published Briefly Knocked Unconscious By A Low-Flying Duck, an essay anthology of the 2nd Story CollectiveBriefly Knocked Unconscious By A Low-Flying Duck: Stories from 2nd Story, Publishers Weekly, February 18, 2013. that has won multiple literary prizes.American Writer, July 2013
In 2014 the press moved into the young adult fiction market with Jessie Ann Foley's novel The Carnival at Bray,Donald Liebenson, "Elephant Rock Books enters Y.A. with 'The Carnival at Bray'", Chicago Tribune, June 20, 2014. which was named a Printz Honor Book.
Elephant Rock published The Art of Holding On and Letting Go, a debut novel by Kristin Bartley Lenz that is a Junior Library Guild Selection and Great Lakes Great Books Award honor book from the Michigan Reading Association.
Other books published by the press: A Vacation on the Islands of Ex-Boyfriends by Stacy Bierlein, The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex: The Memoir of a Fat Kid by John McNally, and Borrowed by Lucia DiStefano.
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