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Coffee House Staff

	Lizzie Davis, Editor lizzie@coffeehousepress.org Lizzie is an editor and translator from Spanish to English. Her recent projects include works by Daniela Tarazona, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Elena Medel, and her co-translation of Medel's Las maravillas with Thomas Bunstead is forthcoming from Pushkin Press. Prior to joining Coffee House Press, she studied literary arts and romance languages at Brown University.
	Zoë Koenig, Development Assistant zoe@coffeehousepress.org Zoë joined Coffee House Press in the spring of 2019 following an internship with the press the previous fall. She holds a BA from Beloit College where she focused on literary studies, creative writing, and critical identity studies and served as a production editor for the Beloit Fiction Journal.
	Claire Fallon, Publicity & Communications Assistant claire@coffeehousepress.org Claire Fallon joined Coffee House Press in 2019. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 2018 with a BA in English literature and previously served as an intern with Graywolf Press. Claire is also a poet and essayist; she wrote a lyric essay on the music of Talking Heads for her senior thesis, which won the Mark David Clawson Award. Her nonfiction can be found in Cosmonauts Avenue.
	Daley Farr, Publicist daley@coffeehousepress.org Daley comes to Coffee House Press from Milkweed Books, where she worked as a bookseller, buyer, and events coordinator. In addition to planning events specializing in independent presses and emerging authors, Daley managed the bookstore’s marketing, digital media, and subscription programs. Previously, she worked in events at Magers & Quinn Booksellers and many actual coffee houses. She studied literature at the University of Oxford and graduated from Augsburg College with a BA in English.
	Chris Fischbach, Publisher fish@coffeehousepress.org Chris became publisher of Coffee House Press in July 2011, after sixteen years in various editorial roles. He has served as co-chair of the Minneapolis Arts Commission, assistant director of the Twin Cities Book Festival, and on the board of directors of the Friends of the Hennepin County Library. He currently serves on the board of the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
	Rob Keefe, Bookkeeper rob@coffeehousepress.org Robert Keefe arrived at the offices of Coffee House Press via a trajectory that reads like a Proustian phrase: long, complex, all-encompassing—beginning as a computer scientist who picked up accounting while networking small construction developers in Los Angeles, to trade that hat and to ply his hands at publishing and writing, and cinema and radio in the Pacific Northwest, then a skip across the pond to Europe as a DJ until an inevitable return to NYC as an accountant for record labels. He packed up shop again for the long mid-west horizons to settle just south of the source of the Mississippi. He’s rather fond of biking and meeting new folks.
	Allan Kornblum, Founder Allan studied poetry at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and published poems in a wide variety of little magazines in the 1970s and early 1980s. During that period he served as the editor, designer, printer, and publisher for Toothpaste Press. From 1984–2011 he served as editor and publisher at Coffee House Press. In recognition of his work at these two presses, Kornblum received an American Book Award for Special Achievement as an Editor and Publisher in 1997. Allan passed away on November 23, 2014.
	Valeria Luiselli, Contributing Editor Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; and, most recently, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. She is the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and an American Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in New York City.
	Erika Stevens, Senior Editor erika@coffeehousepress.org Erika Stevens is poetry editor-at-large at Coffee House Press and runs Quick Bread Editorial, an independent freelance editing business. Erika previously acquired creative writing, scholarly, and trade books for the University of Georgia Press.
	Marit Swanson, Marketing and Sales Manager marit@coffeehousepress.org Marit Swanson joined Coffee House Press in 2019. She previously worked in marketing at Consortium Book Sales & Distribution and as a bookseller and sidelines buyer at Magers & Quinn Booksellers. She studied violin pedagogy at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music. On most Saturday mornings, you'll find her curled up with a cup of tea and a good book, ideally beside one of her two gray cats.
	Carla Valadez, Managing Editor and Director of Operations carla@coffeehousepress.org Carla Valadez joined Coffee House Press in 2015 with a decade of experience in book publishing. She is a project manager, copy editor, and CHP’s resident Chicago Manual of Style enthusiast. Carla is also on the board of directors of the Minnesota Book Publishers’ Roundtable.