North Atlantic Books

The Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences was incorporated in 1980. At that time, its primary goals were to encourage and disseminate non-Western and new-paradigm arts and sciences. It also provided an organizational framework for two publishing enterprises: Io, an interdisciplinary journal founded in 1964 by Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough (while college students), and North Atlantic Books, a literary publishing company derived from Io in 1974.

In their early stages, Io and North Atlantic Books were grant-based, with most of the funding coming from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Now, a more mature SSNAAS is pursuing outside funding anew to match its own revenues and to enable it to expand its services and contribution to local and global communities.