Get Lit! Festival 2019

Come hear publishers and authors share some of their most memorable adventures in the publishing industry. The conversation will be moderated by Janaka Stucky, founding editor of the award-winning press, Black Ocean. His poetry collection, The Truth Is We Are Perfect was the inaugural title of Third Man Books, a publishing imprint of Jack White’s Third Man Records. Other books include Your Name Is The Only Freedom, The World Will Deny It For You, and Ascend Ascend. Panelists include Kelly Schirmann, author of Popular Music and the co-author, with Tyler Brewington, of Boyfriend Mountain and Nature Machine. She is the founding editor of Black Cake, a record label for contemporary poetry and other experiments, and the co-creator of OMO, Public Access and Friendship Collective. Christopher Howell has published eleven poetry collections, most recently Love’s Last Number. His work has appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including Colorado Review, Crazy Horse, Field, Gettysburg Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. He has won three Pushcart Prizes, two National Endowment Fellowships, two fellowships from the Artist Trust, and the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Editorial Excellence. Greg Gerding is the author of five books of prose poetry, a collection of essays, and an oral history on the subject of intimacy. Gerding is the founder of University of Hell Press, which started as a self-publishing brand, and is the Editor-in-Chief of The Big Smoke America. Christine Holbert is the founding director of Lost Horse Press. Christine reviews and edits manuscripts, designs covers and text, typesets books, designs catalogs, promotes Lost Horse books, manages marketing, oversees interns and volunteers, and negotiates with distributors, bookstores, printers, authors, and other publishers.