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ABOUT
DZANC
Steve
Gillis – Founder and Publisher
Steven Gillis is the author of the novels Walter Falls
and The Weight of Nothing, both finalists for the Independent
Publishers Book of the Year and ForeWord Magazine Book
of the Year 2003 and 2005. Steve's third novel, Temporary People,
will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2008. Steve's stories,
articles and book reviews have appeared in over three dozen journals.
A 6 time Pushcart nominee and 4 time Best Of... Notable Stories,
a collection of Steve's stories - titled Giraffes - was
published in February, 2007. A second collection of Steve's stories
- titled What We Wonder When Not Sure- will be published
by BLP in 2009. A member of the Ann Arbor Book Festival Board
of Directors, and a finalist for the 2007 Ann Arbor News Citizen
of the Year, Steve teaches writing at Eastern Michigan University
and is the founder of 826
Michigan and the co-founder of Dzanc Books in partnership
with Dan Wickett. All proceeds from Steve's writing goes to Dzanc.
Contact: steve@dzancbooks.org
Dan Wickett – Executive Director and Publisher
In 2000, Dan founded the Emerging
Writers Network by reviewing Alyson Hagy’s Keeneland
and emailing the review to 21 individuals. Throughout the years,
Dan has continued to develop the EWN by adding interviews, e-panels,
and other literary reporting to the itinerary and developing a
database website for storage of these, as well as a litblog
for more daily topic discussion. The network itself currently
has over 2000 members. Dan is also a member of the Litblog
Co-op, a grouping of over 20 of the leading North American
litblog sites who promote books that might otherwise get lost
in the shuffle. Dan is also involved with putting together the
Ann
Arbor Book Festival.
Contact: dan@dzancbooks.org
Keith Taylor – Editor
Keith Taylor has published several books, including two in 2006
- Guilty at the Rapture, a collection of poems and
stories, and a translation from modern Greek, Battered Guitars:
The Poetry and Prose of Kostas Karyotakis. A collection of
very short stories, Life Science and Other Stories, was
published by Hanging Loose Press in 1995. His poems, stories,
reviews, essays, and translations have appeared in well over 100
journals here and in Europe. He has received a Fellowship in poetry
from the National Endowment for the Arts, and one in fiction from
the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs. He has
had residencies at Isle Royale National Park, the Detroit YMCA,
a translation center in Rhodes, Greece, and at Greenhills School
in Ann Arbor, among others. He teaches part time at the Unversity
of Michigan, where he coordinates the undergraduate program in
Creative Writing.
Lauren Snyder – Publicist
Lauren Snyder began representing Dzanc Books in 2007 to assist
in spreading the news about their phenomenal books and programs.
As an undergraduate at the University of New Mexico she assisted
in the editing, design, and distribution of the University's literary
journal, Blue Mesa Review, then later worked as a bookseller
at Page One, Inc. and as a part-time middle school drama teacher
in Albuquerque before taking an internship at Graywolf Press in
Minnesota in 2003. In 2004, she was hired as a Marketing Assistant
at Coffee House Press and was named Publicist a year and a half
later. In 2007, Lauren moved to Asheville, North Carolina and
started a freelance publicity and consulting business. Brought
up in a book-loving family, she never had to leave the house to
get books on any subject from Archaeology in the Western world
to Zen temples of Japan.
Contact: lauren@dzancbooks.org
Steven Seighman – Art Director
Steven Seighman is a graphic designer and lover of books. In 2002
he started Monkeybicycle,
a small literary journal and Web site which, among other things,
has been represented in two editions of The Best American Nonrequired
Reading anthology (2005 and 2007). At Monkeybicycle,
he handles the editing, web management and design work, as well
as many other things. He received an Associate of Science degree
in Graphic Design from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He loves
to screen print.
Contact: stevens@dzancbooks.org
Vanessa Clarke – International Woman of Mystery
She has colorful hair.
DZANC ADVISORS
Fred Ramey
DZANC EMERITUS
Cammy Middour – Intern
Cammy's love of literature and writing began in the Santa Cruz
Mountains (where she grew up on a goat farm) and finally took
off at Sarah Lawrence College, where she earned her BA. Cammy
has played the cello since age three, and is earnestly learning
to play the jazz harmonica. She is the co-founder and Editor of
The Little Jackie Paper literary magazine, and currently
resides in Portland, Oregon.
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