PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Michelle Dotter earned a degree in Creative Writing before beginning her editing career with MacAdam/Cage Publishing in San Francisco. Before coming to Dzanc, she also worked with MP Publishing, Cameron + Company, Once Magazine, and myriad independent authors. She has worked with New York Times bestselling authors, along with winners of the National Book Award, the Whiting Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recipients of other honors. The first three books on her shelf are CMoS, The Subversive Copy Editor, and the hilarious O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun, and her quintessential Dzanc titles are The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsay Drager and My Red Heaven by Lance Olsen.

FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER EMERITUS

Steven Gillis is the author of the upcoming novel, Benchere in Wonderland, and as well several past titles, including Walter Falls, The Weight of Nothing, Giraffes, Temporary People, The Law of Strings, and The Consequence of Skating, which won the Silver Medal at the Independent Publishers Awards in 2010. Steve's stories, articles, and book reviews have appeared in over four dozen journals and won many major awards. A three-year member of the Ann Arbor Book Festival Board of Directors, and a finalist for the 2007 Ann Arbor News Citizen of the Year, Steve taught writing at Eastern Michigan University. All proceeds from Steve's writing go to help support Dzanc Books.

CO-FOUNDER

In 2000, Dan founded the Emerging Writers Network by reviewing Alyson Hagy’s Keeneland and emailing the review to twenty-one 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 blog for more daily topic discussion. The EWN currently has over 2600 members. Visiting Hours, an anthology of short stories edited by Wickett, was published by Press 53 in late 2008.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Chelsea Gibbons earned her BA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College while beginning her publishing career as copy editor for various Emerson publications. She worked as an editorial intern at Publishing Solutions Group before securing her editorial internship at Dzanc in the spring of 2023. Shortly after graduating, Chelsea took on the role of Associate Editor at Dzanc. Complementing her work with Dzanc, Chelsea works as a freelance copy editor for a number of presses and is involved in editing materials across all genres.

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF GRAVER GOODS AND FOUNDER OF IMPRACTICUM

Bret Gladstone is the editorial director of Graver Goods and the founder of Impracticum, a vocational writing college grounded in service work. He teaches interdisciplinary writing seminars at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. His music criticism has appeared in The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and Spin, among other publications, and his fiction was awarded an Edward F. Albee Fellowship. Prior to teaching at NYU, Columbia University, Medgar Evers College, and The New School, he worked in shelters with rescue and future service dogs.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF GRAVER GOODS PRESS

Danny Wallace is the associate editor of Graver Goods Press and a Sr. Communications Specialist at Texas Children’s Hospital. He joined Texas Children’s in June 2022 from the University of Houston, where he worked as a literature professor and lectured frequently on the classics of philosophy in the Human Situation program. He also served as a staff writer in the communications department of the Honors College. Danny earned an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. As a journalist, he has written for the Arizona Republic, the Villager, Downtown Express, Phoenix New Times and many others.