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Yuka Igarashi named Graywolf executive editor By Claire Kirch | Mar 01, 2021
Graywolf Press, the venerable Minneapolis literary press, announced this morning that it has hired industry veteran Yuka Igarashi as executive editor, a newly created position; Jeff Shotts is also a Graywolf executive editor, working on poetry and creative nonfiction/essays. Igarashi will assume the position on April 8 and will work remotely from her home in Hawaii. She will report to publisher Fiona McCrae and editorial director Ethan Nosowsky.
Igarashi is well known in the literary publishing world: she currently serves as editor-in-chief at Soft Skull Press, and is the founder of
Ruth Dickey, the executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures, is to take up her new post with the National Book Foundation on May 17.
An excerpt from a listing of upcoming event at Seattle Arts & Lectures, which Ruth Dickey has led since July 2013. Image: Seattle Arts & Lectures
Dickey: A ‘Critical Role in Our Cultural Landscape’
The National Book Foundation today (February 11) has announced that Ruth Dickey will serve as the program’s new executive director, following the departure of Lisa Lucas to become senior vice president and publisher of Knopf’s Pantheon and Schocken imprints. The foundation, of course, is the nonprofit producer of the National Book Awards.