Staff
Suzanna Tamminen is the Director and Editor-in-Chief at
Wesleyan University Press, where she has made important acquisitions in poetry,
dance, and Connecticut history. She is the sponsoring editor of, among many
more titles, Rae Armantrout’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Versed, Jean Valentine’s National Book
Award winning collection Door in the
Mountain, Liz Lerman’s Hiking the
Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, Tomie Hahn’s Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture
Through Japanese Dance, Jules Verne’s Invasion
of the Sea, Mel Goldstein’s Dr. Mel’s
Connecticut Climate Book, and Dan DeLuca’s The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York
Legend. She also oversees the online Reader Companions and the dance and
humanities website Accelerated Motion, acceleratedmotion.wesleyan.edu.
stamminen@wesleyan.edu
Parker Smathers, Acquisitions Editor, has a B.A. '97 from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, and an MFA '01 from the University of Iowa in Poetry. His poems have appeared in the Denver Quarterly and Iowa Review. Parker comes to Wesleyan from the University of Chicago Press where he was an editorial associate.
psmathers@wesleyan.edu
Leslie Starr, Assistant Director and Marketing Manager, has a B.A. '76 from Cornell University in design and an MBA '85 from UConn in marketing. She has worked in direct marketing, primarily in children's publishing, for 15 years. Other experience includes marketing instrument training to pilots and kitchenware to cooks. Her personal interests include historical and environmental conservation, and she lives in Haddam with her husband.
Lstarr@wesleyan.edu
Stephanie Elliott, Publicist and Web Manager, has a B.A. '96 from the University of New England in Liberal Arts. She also received a certificate in graphic design from the University of New Hampshire and attended the publishing program at Pace University. She comes to Wesleyan from Arcadia Publishing where she was publicity manager for the Northeast region. Previously, she worked at Thomas T. Beeler, Pace University Press, and Aviation Week & Space Technology.
selliott@wesleyan.edu
Revised: February 9, 2005
