Mutt Press is an award-winning book imprint. It was founded in 1995 as the imprint for books by award-winning writer Scott Semegran. Mutt Press won the Gold Medal for Humor in the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for Scott Semegran's novel To Squeeze a Prairie Dog. The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards is regarded as one of the highest national honors in independent publishing. Mutt Press focuses primarily on fiction and publishes paperbacks, hardcovers, eBooks, and audiobooks. The Mutt Press logo was illustrated by Scott Semegran and the dog's name is Flaco.

Scott Semegran is an award-winning writer of nine books. BlueInk Review described him best as “a gifted writer, with a wry sense of humor.” His latest novel, The Codger and the Sparrow (Paperback from TCU Press, Audiobook from Vibrance Press), is a comical yet moving story about a 65-year-old widower’s unlikely friendship with a 16-year-old troublemaker. His eight previous books include The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island, which was the first place winner for Middle-Grade/Young Adult fiction in the 2021 Writer’s Digest Book Awards, and To Squeeze a Prairie Dog, which was the winner of the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal for Humor. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife. They have four kids, two cats, and a dog. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in English.