ABOUT DZANC

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Dzanc Books was created in 2006 to advance great writing and champion those writers who don't fit neatly into the marketing niches of for-profit presses. As a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization, Dzanc Books not only publishes excellent books of literary fiction, but works in partnership with literary journals to advance their readership at every level. Dzanc is also fully committed to developing educational programs in the schools and has begun organizing many such workshops and Writers In Residency programs. The authors already signed by Dzanc are extraordinary, award winning talents, including Roy Kesey (All Over, Oct 2007) Yannick Murphy (In A Bear's Eye, 2008) and Peter Markus (Bob, or Man on Boat, 2008). All Dzanc authors not only receive contracts and monetary compensation commensurate with the best literary houses, but the personal attention shown to each author by Dzanc - including reviews, book tours and intimate involvement in every step of the publishing process - clearly makes Dzanc unique.

For more information on our publishing, our work with literary journals and educational programs, please refer to those areas of the website or contact us with additional questions at: info@dzancbooks.org

Dzancs for checking out Dzanc Books where we believe great writing, community involvement and education truly makes a difference.

 

STAFF

Steve Gillis – Founder and Publisher
Steven Gillis is the author of the novels Walter Falls, The Weight of Nothing—both finalists for the Independent Publishers Book of the Year and ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year 2003 and 2005—and Temporary People. Steve's stories, articles and book reviews have appeared in over three dozen journals. A six-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 The Principles of Landscape—will be published by Black Lawrence Press 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 2600 members. Dan is also a member of the Litblog Co-op, a grouping of over 20 of the leading North American litblog sites that brought attention to both books that might have been overlooked, as well as to litblogs in general. An anthology of short stories that Dan edited, Visiting Hours, will be published by Press 53 in late 2008. 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.


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.
Contact: stevens@dzancbooks.org


Vanessa Clarke – International Woman of Mystery
She has colorful hair.

DZANC ADVISORS

Fred Ramey

Jessica Stocton Bagnulo

Karl Pohrt

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.