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Photo by Chip Cooper
Daniel
Menaker was an editor at The New Yorker for twenty years.
In 1995 he went to Random House as Senior Literary Editor. In 2001,
he became Editor-in-Chief of the Random House editorial imprints. He
is the author of two books of short stories and a novel, The
Treatment, which was published by Knopf, and he continues to
contribute to such publications as The New Yorker, The New York
Times, and Slate. Menaker left Random House in 2007. He is
at present working on Can We Talk?, a book about conversation,
and is the Editorial Producer and Presenter for the online book
program Titlepage.
Rick Simonson has worked at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company since
1976. He founded and continues to help run Elliott Bay's
internationally-recognized author reading series, which has presented
writers from around the world since 1984. He is a founding board
member of Copper Canyon Press, and has served on numerous advisory
boards, and panels for the American Booksellers Assn., the Seattle
Art Museum, Seattle Arts & Lectures, Seattle Review, the Miami
Book Fair, and the Beijing Book Fair, among others. He writes a
column, “Mist Place,” for publishersweekly.com.
©2008 by Marianne
Barcellona, All Rights Reserved
Hannah Tinti
grew up in Salem, Massachusetts. Her short story collection, Animal
Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for
the PEN/Hemingway award. Her first novel, The Good Thief, has
recently been published by The Dial Press and is a finalist for the
John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize. She is co-founder and
editor-in-chief of One Story magazine.
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