From publishers weekly:

“A transplanted New Yorker, Colagrande has published two previous novels (Deco in 2012, and Hedz in 2009) with the Buffalo indie press BlazeVox and is also a blogger for the Huffington Post. He described the Jitney Books list as “quirky, deep, literary, and edgy,” pointing to the Brooklyn indie house Akashic Books, as well as McSweeney’s as models: “Jitney Books draws its inspiration from these two presses, and its content falls somewhere in between, drawing on all of Miami’s weirdness and roughness.

Jitney Books, a micropublishing venture launched in late 2017 by J.J. Colagrande, a novelist and full-time professor at Miami Dade College, is a good example of how a publisher with little capital can launch a small house with a list of talented but unknown writers. The press, which is named after the Miami minibuses that snake through the city’s gritty neighborhoods, focuses on quirky literary works written by authors based in the Miami area.”