About us

Our Focus

The focus of Cypress Magazine is finding Real People, Real Places, and Real West Tennessee. Content includes recipes, schools, featured local hot spots, hunting and fishing, arts and entertainment, sports, weddings, travel, and much more!

We’re looking for the beautiful and heart touching things that make West Tennessee the perfect place to live, work, and visit. Our team is traveling all over the region to bring you content from the Tomato Festival of Ripley and the International Goat Days Festival of Millington to the World's Biggest Fish Fry in Paris and the songs of Savannah. 

We’re not just a magazine; we’re a celebration of our Southern Heritage and a place to find the Rural Americana spirit that makes West Tennessee the culturally rich region we love. With 15,000 copies distributed we want to make sure everyone gets a copy! To make sure you get your copy delivered right to your door, subscriptions are available too!

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About Cypress

Cypress Magazine has been a reality since the summer of 2017 with a coverage area now including Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, McNairy, Obion, North Shelby, Tipton, and Weakley Counties. Our goal is to help the Real People, Real Places, and the REAL West Tennessee SHINE!

We publish 11 issues a year:

  1. February
  2. March
  3. April
  4. May
  5. June
  6. July
  7. August
  8. September
  9. October
  10. November
  11. December


"When we started to look at the area we wanted to cover with this magazine, we realized just how diverse a population we are-and how very special our people are. We are unabashedly and proudly, Western Tennessee, a part of the South," Shoffner exclaims. “We celebrate our towns and heritage.”

—Lucianne Shoffner

Publisher