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jeffrey lependorf, executive director, jlependorf@clmp.org
Jeffrey Lependorf, the Executive Director of SPD, has over fifteen years of experience in development, fundraising, corporate sponsorship, and strategic planning. He has served as Development Director at Creative Capital Foundation, Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, the Poetry Society of America, and In the Life Media. While not at SPD or CLMP in New York (where he also serves as Executive Director), he is active as a composer and also serves as Director of Music Omi, an international music residency program in upstate New York. His Masterpieces of Western Music audiocourse is available through Barnes and Noble's "portable Professor" series. |
laura moriarty, deputy director, laura@spdbooks.org
Laura Moriarty has worked at SPD since 1999. Her books have been carried by SPD since the eighties and she has been a faithful customer since the seventies. She was formerly the Acquisitions & Marketing Director and has been Deputy Director since 2004. For more than a decade, she was Director of the American Poetry Archives for the Poetry Center and San Francisco State University. She is the author eleven books of poetry and two novels. Her most recent book is the novel Ultravioleta just out from Atelos. Her selected poetry will be published by Omnidawn Press in Fall 2007. Her awards include the Poetry Center Book Award in 1983, a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award in Poetry in 1992 and a New Langton Arts Award in Literature 1998. She has taught at Naropa University and Mills College. |
brent cunningham, operations director, brent@spdbooks.org
Brent Cunningham has been with SPD for over six years, first as their Sales & Marketing Manager, then as the Operations Director beginning in 2004. He brought a strong background in customer service to SPD, having previously worked for an internet e-commerce company in San Francisco. Since 2001 he has served on the board of Small Press Traffic, one of the premier literary presenting organizations in San Francisco. In 1998 he received his Masters degree in English from the Poetics Program at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, and his undergraduate degree in English from the University of Redlands in 1991. In 2005 his first book Bird & Forest was published by Ugly Duckling Presse. |
neil alger, sales & marketing manager, neil@spdbooks.org
Neil has been with SPD since 2003. He has a degree in Literature from Brown University with a focus in contemporary poetry. Alongside SPD's Brent Cunningham, Neil is a co-founder/co-publisher of Hooke Press. In 2004, Neil became a boardmember of the Northern California Book Publicity and Marketing Association. He has worked as a freelance editor for Greenhaven Press, as an online marketing assistant for San Francisco Performances, and as a managing editor for Tabor Communications. |
andrew pai, business manager, andrew@spdbooks.org
Andrew Pai joined SPD at the beginning of 2005 as an Administrative Associate in the Business Office before becoming the Business Manager in 2006. In 2004 he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in English. Prepared at first to be a computer science major, he has a strong background in math and later developed his administrative and publishing knowledge through working for the San Francisco City Hall as a publication assistant. He is currently working on a novel and volunteering at night as an editorial assistant for a grassroots Asian American magazine. |
alli warren, customer service and development associate, alli@spdbooks.org
Alli Warren has worked as the Customer Service and Development Associate since October 2005. In 2004, Alli received B.A.s from U.C. Santa Cruz in Philosophy and Literature (Creative Writing). She currently divides her time between getting books into the hands of eager customers, assisting Deputy Director Laura Moriarty with development campaigns, and attending poetry events at the various Bay Area locales. |
john sakkis, customer service and sales associate, john@spdbooks.org
John Sakkis joined the SPD family as a Customer Service and Sales Associate in April, 2008. He received his BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University (2004) and went on to earn an MFA in Writing and Poetics from The Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University (2006). He curates the BOTH BOTH Reading Series in San Francisco. |
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