Want to publish your work? Learn about the publishing industry? Join us for a Q&A with industry professionals Rachel Levitsky, Publisher of Belladonna* and Kristen Elias Rowley, Editor-in-Chief of The Ohio State University Press.

Rachel Levitsky is the author of Under the Sun (Futurepoem), NEIGHBOR (UDP) the poetic novella, The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem) and most recently Against Travel/Anti-Voyage, a bilingual French/English text. More than twenty years ago, she founded the Belladonna* Collaborative which is committed to publishing and building literary community among women-identified and LGBTQIA+ authors who write off-center, producing work that is political and critical.

Kristen Elias Rowley is Editor in Chief at The Ohio State University Press where she launched the Mad Creek Books imprint in 2017. An editor since 2006, she was an acquisitions editor at the University of Nebraska Press, and her authors’ books have won numerous awards including the Lambda Literary Awards, the Grub Street Prize, an International Latino Book award, and a Jewish Journal Book Prize.

This event is presented by the Miami University Creative Writing Program and the Center for Career Exploration & Success