30th Annual New York Book Show (Back Matter) by Book Industry Guild of New York

JUDGES’ BIOGRAPHIES Lucy Albanese has a passion for books and a love of publishing. The creation of beautiful print and digital trade books to enhance the reading experience is her life’s endeavor. She finds book design challenging and highly rewarding, not to mention fun. Cutting her eyeteeth at Henry Holt, she transitioned her team from conventional book design to desktop publishing. She LUCY ALBANESE joined HarperCollins in 2000 as Design Director and now manages a team of talented interior book designers who have produced thousands of functional, beautiful, and edgy books, including award-winning designs. Married to a photographer/creative director with a son whose goal is to teach art, she is never at a loss for critics. Lucy has presented at Adobe events, taught art to students, and spearheaded the team that produced BISG “Fonts for Ebooks”. As an award-winning designer, she understands the merits of having your work recognized and displayed. She was honored to be judging the book show, collaborating with colleagues on the finer aspects of design and production while critiquing some of the most distinguished books in the industry.

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Jennifer Blanc-Tal is a book designer and production coordinator at Rutgers University Press, where she strives to make books more beautiful and more cost-efficient and to make production schedules shorter in the service of the scholarly word. With over 20 years in publishing she’s designed K-12 textbooks, young adult, children’s, trade, and mass market books for such companies as Macmillan/ JENNIFER BLANC-TAL McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Harcourt, 17th Street Productions, and Ballantine Books, among others. She holds an M.A. in photography from the New York University/International Center of Photography joint program and a B.F.A. from Long Island University. A bookworm from an early age, Sabrina Bowers’s first experience with typography was designing and laying out her high school newspaper. It was a thrill to get to select the font. After a stint in the managing editorial department of Macmillan Library Reference, she changed course in her publishing career and turned to book design. She studied typefaces while working on offsets for SABRINA BOWERS Viking. She has since designed and typeset hundreds of book interiors, from such diverse categories as Nobel Prize-winning literature to vampire romances. She’s currently the senior design manager for Penguin Books, TarcherPerigee, and Plume. She lives in a Brooklyn apartment lined with overstuffed bookshelves, and though she’s created an eBook or two, still prefers reading the printed page to reading on a screen.

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Lonn Braender is a sales executive with Phoenix Color, a proud American manufacturing company focused on bringing your projects to life through print. Phoenix Color is the premier, independently-owned book and component printer serving U.S. publishers for almost 40 years. Lonn has been involved in the printing industry for almost 30 years, dating back to his LONN BRAENDER days in Philadelphia with a multi-faceted commercial printer. He’s spent the last 20 years working with books and book components—in both customer service and sales— with Lehigh Press, Brady Palmer, and now, Phoenix Color. He has a degree from The College of New Jersey in graphic arts and loves the business of books and book components.

Heather Daugherty is a senior designer at HarperCollins Publishers in New York, designing middle grade and young adult books. She received a B.F.A. in graphic design at Suffolk University and has been designing children’s books for almost ten years, having worked with many talented illustrators and photographers. Heather is always on the lookout for new artists HEATHER DAUGHERTY that bring something different to the table, whether it be their creative style or something unique in their artwork that sets them apart. She’s a design nerd, a type geek, a working mom, an only child, a Parrothead, and a believer that the printed book will never fade out from our cultures and lives. She hopes she’s right.

Lynne Ciccaglione is currently managing editor at Regan Arts, a Phaidon Global company, where she oversees the creation and publication of trade fiction and nonfiction books and works on a select number of illustrated books. Lynne got her start in book publishing at Melcher Media. She holds a B.A. from Vassar College, where she studied cultural anthropology and English.

Julie Doebler is a 12-year employee for Simon & Schuster. She is currently the associate production director for Simon Pulse and Aladdin imprints, in addition to Custom Publishing, for all children’s imprints. She studied English with a focus on Publishing Studies at Hofstra University and has more than 15 years of experience in producing children’s books. The fourJULIE DOEBLER color and novelty experience she gained at Golden Books, along with the sales practice from her years at Random House, gave her a unique insight into the life of books that she utilizes daily in bringing books from conception to market.

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Elizabeth Clark is an associate art director at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, where she has been working for the past four years. She designs and art directs a wide range of books, including young adult novels, middle grade novels, and picture books. Elizabeth is interested in creating books as treasured objects, and enjoys the challenge of designing for both beauty and ELIZABETH CLARK function. She received her B.A. in studio art and art history at Boston University School of Fine Arts, and has been working in the book world since the day she graduated. In her spare time, she is slowly working toward the prosperity of a new community garden in her neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, NY.

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Andy Ensor began his publishing career circulating cover mechanicals and updating schedules at Fodor’s Travel Publications. Along the way, he worked on classics at The Modern Library, trade paperbacks at Crown, mass market books at St. Martin’s Press and Berkley, and college textbooks at Bedford/St. Martin’s. Today, he is a production manager with W. W. Norton & ANDY ENSOR Company, Inc., continuing to work on college textbooks as well as an array of e-media. In his spare time, he enjoys yoga, following the Mets and Seahawks, and volunteer work.

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Leslie Flis is a senior book designer for Princeton University Press, where she has been designing interiors and covers for books on poetry, economics, mathematics, history, political science, and natural history for over 20 years. Her career began in advertising, which led to magazine art direction, freelance illustration specializing in informational graphics, and now, book LESLIE FLIS design. She holds a B.F.A. in communication arts and design from Virginia Commonwealth University and has studied at the School of Visual Arts. Sonali Fry has worked in children’s publishing for almost 20 years and is currently the editorial director of Little Bee Books, Bonnier Publishing’s new US-based imprint. In addition to acquiring titles and managing the editorial team, Sonali oversees Little Bee’s design and production teams. She began her career at the Putnam Berkley Group which, after a merger with Penguin, SONALI FRY became Penguin Putnam Inc. Sonali then spent a couple of years at Scholastic, where she had the pleasure of editing many, many books about Clifford the Big Red Dog. Prior to joining Little Bee Books, Sonali was at Simon & Schuster, working in Simon Spotlight, and then moved to Little Simon, where she edited several series of board books, including those by Karen Katz, Eric Carle, and Sandra Boynton. Sonali also launched the successful Little Simon chapter book series Heidi Heckelbeck, Galaxy Zack, The Kingdom of Wrenly, and Tales from Maple Ridge.

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Barbara Grzeslo is an art director for Boyds Mills Press, Calkins Creek, and WordSong— all imprints of Highlights Press. She has a broad and varied background: a full career in the corporate sector, culminating as principal designer at Digital Equipment Corporation (when it still existed); creative director of Grapheme (the design arm of Cossette, a Canadian advertising agency); BARBARA GRZESLO and partner in a design studio in New York City. She has taught part-time at York University in Toronto, Harvard, and Parsons School of Design. Since 2001, Barbara has immersed herself in children’s publishing, working at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as Feiwel and Friends. She arrived in Honesdale, PA, after living and working in Toronto, Boston, London, England, and New York. Barbara received her M.F.A. from Yale University. Tom Leddy has spent his career in production and operations. He has held positions at Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, and the Random House Publishing Group. For the past two years he has been with DK, where he is head of US production. When not touring the northeast visiting potential colleges for his older daughter (with his TOM LEDDY younger daughter in tow), Tom enjoys reading, watching movies, and spending time at the beach. Carolyn Lengel is an executive editor for English composition books and media at Bedford/St. Martin’s/Macmillan Learning. During her 12 years in-house at Bedford/ St. Martin’s she has developed a variety of books, ranging from traditional anthologies to graphic novels, all aimed at the college market. She spends most of her workdays as the franchise lead editor for three CAROLYN LENGEL remarkably friendly and cheerful writing handbooks by Andrea A. Lunsford. On these and other projects, talented designers have made the job far more enjoyable! Carolyn feels that the technology of the printed book is hard to beat—but she is grateful for ebooks every time she has to pack for a long trip.

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Michelle Mudry Lipar is production director at Rocket Books, specializing in children’s books and novelty products. She joined Rocket Books in 1997, shortly after graduating with a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame. She works with printers and novelty manufacturers overseas to help bring all aspects of a book together for her customers in the US and abroad. Her MICHELLE MUDRY specialty is production consulting, working with clients to develop and refine formats to meet design, editorial, and economic requirements.

JAMES McCAFFERTY

James McCafferty is the director of book group sales for Ecological Fibers, Inc. His primary responsibility is to sell and/or get specified products to the book manufacturing and publishing community. Prior to joining Ecological Fibers 10 years ago, James served at several levels of manufacturing, quality control, and management during his 15-year tenure at National Publishing Company in Philadelphia.

Jennifer Rappaport is an editor at the Modern Language Association. She began her publishing career as an intern at New York University Press and later worked at Oxford University Press and The New Press. For several years, she ran her own freelance editing business; her clients included Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Bloomsbury, St. Martin’s, the University of JENNIFER RAPPAPORT Chicago Press, and Duke University Press. Jennifer is also a French translator. Her translation of Anna Gavalda’s novel Billie was published by Europa Editions in 2015. She received a B.A. in English and French from Vassar College and an M.A. in comparative literature from NYU.

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BENJAMIN REYNOLDS

Benjamin Reynolds is associate director of college production at W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., where he oversees textbooks and media programs across many disciplines. He is also a freelance copyeditor and proofreader, and has worked on an enormous variety of trade titles at several publishing houses. He lives in Bloomfield, NJ, with his wife, Stephanie.

Marni Sabin is a lead academic designer at McGraw-Hill Education, developing learning solutions for PreK–6 Literacy and English Language Learning. She has held a variety of editorial positions during her 18 years in educational publishing. Marni holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and an M.A. in linguistics from Northeastern MARNI SABIN Illinois University in Chicago. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn, NY, and volunteers with iMentor and Sokol New York.

DANA SLOAN

Dana Sloan has been an art director of interiors for Atria Books at Simon & Schuster since 2002. From 1988 to 2001 she was a senior designer for Harry N. Abrams, Inc., working chiefly on books about fine art and photography. She has won awards from The New York Book Show, the AIGA’s 50 Books/50 Covers Competition, The Art Directors Club of New York, and Bookbuilders West. She lives with her husband in the Bronx, NY.

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Jules Thomson holds the position of head of production at David Zwirner Books. David Zwirner is a contemporary art gallery in New York and London active in both the primary and secondary markets. Today, Jules prints mostly in Verona, Italy, where she spends considerable time on press and in binderies for the gallery. She also has extensive print production experience JULES THOMSON in the US, Europe, and Asia over a 20-year career span. Prior to joining David Zwirner, Jules worked in the design and production departments at Abrams and in the production department for Phaidon Press, New York. Before moving to New York over a decade ago, Jules held design and book production positions in her native Scotland, France, and England where she studied publishing and book production following her M.A.Â

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Kevin Ullrich started his career learning the ropes of the publishing business in 1985, working as a paste-up artist for a small magazine company in New Jersey. Disgruntled that all the hard work put into designing magazine products were ultimately thrown in the garbage each month, he left the business in 1988 and found a job working for the Michael KEVIN ULLRICH Friedman Publishing Group. It was here that he again found his childhood love for books, and he never looked back. Kevin started working for Barnes & Noble in 1999 and was promoted to creative operations director for Sterling Publishing, Co., Inc. in March 2014.

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Michael White has been employed by RR Donnelley for more than 35 years, and has served as a sales representative in New York for more than 22 years. During that time, he has had the pleasure of working with a variety of publishers in the college, juvenile, reference, and adult trade markets. He currently lives in New Jersey with his wife, Maria.

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