Staff & Board

Our Staff

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  Erin Branagan

  Communications & Development Director

  Erin Branagan has a lifelong interest in languages, literature, and the interrelation of countries and cultures. She speaks Spanish, French, and Japanese and has lived and traveled extensively outside the U.S.
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  Sarah Coolidge

  Associate Editor, Two Lines Press

  Sarah Coolidge received her BA in comparative literature from Bard College. She enjoys reading books in Spanish and English, and she writes essays on photography and international literature.
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  CJ Evans

  Editorial Director, Two Lines Press

  CJ Evans is the author of A Penance (New Issues Press) and The Category of Outcast and received the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship and a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
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  Chad Felix

  Sales & Marketing Manager, Two Lines Press

  Before beginning his career in independent book publishing, Chad Felix spent a decade working in bookstores. He received his MA in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research.
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  Mark Hauber

  Program Director, Poetry Inside Out

  Mark Hauber has more than fifteen years of experience in the nonprofit and education sectors. A lifelong musician, he enjoys photography, ultrarunning, and reading.
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  Michael Holtmann

  Executive Director & Publisher

  Michael Holtmann has worked in the arts for more than fifteen years. Prior to joining the Center, he held positions at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Folger Shakespeare Library. He serves on the board of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and the international programming committee of the Bay Area Book Festival.
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  Kelsey McFaul

  Public Fellow

  Kelsey McFaul is a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz, where she studies east African literature. Her work as a Public Fellow is funded by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
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  Jessica Sevey

  Managing Editor, Two Lines Press

  Jessica Sevey has been able to develop a satisfying career in publishing that draws on her background in foreign language, love of books, and the creative urge to produce work of aesthetic and poetic beauty.
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  Winona Wagner

  Business Manager

  Winona Wagner is an avid bookworm, passionate about international literature and the power of storytelling. She is an advocate for the arts: literary, visual, and performing.
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  Leslie-Ann Woofter

  Event Manager, Two Voices

  Leslie-Ann Woofter developed an interest in literature in translation from her graduate studies of the role of images in translation processes in sixteenth-century Mexico. She loves bringing people together in conversation around the things she adores.
• “Telling is almost always done as a gift..." — Javier Marías (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)