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| Director |
Ivar Nelson took over direction of the EWU Press in summer 2004, after being Director of the University of Idaho Press for the previous five years. Ivar has a degree in Swedish history, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya, a Foreign Service Officer in Swaziland and the United Nations, and a College Discovery teacher at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He co-founded the bookstore Bookpeople of Moscow, published Palouse Journal, and managed Solstice Press. He co-authored Mining Town (University of Washington Press) with his wife, Pat Hart. Their daughter Katrina is currently in Buenos Aires.
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| Managing Editor |
Born and largely raised in Canada, Pamela Holway did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, where her focus was Sanskrit literature. Impressed by the wide array of job opportunities in her chosen field, she jettisoned her Ph.D. dissertation and fled into the world of publishing. In addition to working freelance, she has been a production editor at the University of California Press and at Stanford University Press, where she also served as managing editor. She joined Eastern Washington University Press in December 2005. Her principal interests include photography (which she studied at the Rhode Island School of Design), film, and graphic art, including book design and Web design. She also enjoys gardening and music, notably Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven, Philip Glass, and anything medieval. She lives in Spokane. |
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| Senior Editor |
| Christopher Howell has been publisher/editor of Lynx House Press, an independent, non-profit literary publisher, since 1975. He was the director of the university press and professor of English at Emporia State University from 1988 to 1996. Chris is the author of Light’s Ladder (2004) and six other collections of poems. He has won two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Washington State Governor’s Writers Award, and been in the Pushcart Prize anthology three times. Since 1996, he has taught in the graduate Creative Writing program at EWU, edited the Willow Springs literary journal, and directed the EWU Press. Chris lives in Spokane with his wife Barbara and son Evan. |
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| Sales and Publicity Manager |
| Stephen Meyer came to EWU Press in 2004 after four years as sales manager for the University of Idaho Press . For 26 years, Steve and his wife Janis were the co-owners of The Bookseller, a cultural institution in Coeur d'Alene , Idaho.. During that time, he was on the board of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and served on the CdA City Planning Commission. Steve has worked as a longshoreman, pinball mechanic, teamster, musician, surveyor, homebuilder, instrument maker, glass blower, and hardest of all, father of two daughters (both employed.) His hobbies include hiking, tractor wrenching, airplane building, photography, and travel. |
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| Operations Manager |
Born in Boston to devoted Red Sox fans, Jane Noonan grew up in New England and later studied the dismal science at a prominent western Junior University. She has worked in investments, consumer product marketing and academic research, and volunteered in a wide range of community organizations. She enjoys outdoor recreation and listens to Mozart and Dave Mallet. Since March 2006, she has been sorting out the administrative affairs of Eastern Washington University Press. Jane and her husband, Dave, share their North Spokane home with their teenage son and daughter, and guinea pigs El Cid and Nomar. |
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| Get Lit! Programs Coordinator |
| Danielle Ringwald, as the new Get Lit! Programs Coordinator, is
responsible for overseeing the annual literary festival and organizing
the Young Writers' Program elements which include school residencies,
author tours, and youth poetry slams. She received her B.A. from UC
Irvine in Theater Arts. Before coming to Washington to receive her MFA
in Creative Writing from EWU, Ms. Ringwald gathered ten years of
experience in office management, event production, non-profit
fundraising, and K-12 teaching, all of which come into play in her
current position. |
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| Editorial Assistant |
Currently an MFA candidate in Fiction at EWU, Elizabeth Stanley has worked as an assistant fiction editor for Willow Springs and is the graduate student advisor for the EWU undergraduate journal North West Boulevard. In her past life, she received a BA in English Literature from Wittenberg University and went on to work for Seeds of Literacy, a nonprofit organization where adult students work towards their GED. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, she and her husband Torren, along with their dog DeQuincey, are slowly adjusting to life in the Inland Northwest.
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| Editorial Assistant |
Though she calls Seattle home, Rebecca Morton currently spends most of her waking hours in Spokane studying and writing poetry in Eastern Washington University’s MFA program. In her free time, she rides the train to Vancouver, B.C., takes long urban hikes, and skis slowly down the smallest Washington State slopes she can find. |
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| Editorial Assistant |
John Stawarz was born in Chicago, IL, but grew up among the cornfields of Owatonna, MN. He has studied at Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of North Carolina, and is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing at Eastern Washington University. He's served as Peace Corps volunteer in Benin, West Africa, news director of a radio station in Chapel Hill, NC, and in his spare time helps take care of two hawks, six owls, and a bald eagle at the West Valley Outdoor Learning Center.
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