Other Press

Judith Gurewich, Publisher
Judith Gurewich is the publisher of Other Press, a position she has held since 2002.  Under her leadership, Other Press has become a highly respected and award winning publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction, including titles such as Hurry Down Sunshine, The Glass Room and The Unit.  Born in Canada and raised in Belgium, she holds a law degree from Brussels University as well as a master’s of law from Columbia University and a PhD in sociology from Brandeis University.  She now resides in Cambridge, MA.  Judith is also a Lacanian trained psychoanalyst, practicing part time.  She loves to edit, pitch, cook, walk, and swim.

Paul Kozlowski, Associate Publisher
Paul began his publishing career thirty-one years ago at a Doubleday Bookshop on 49th Street and 3rd Avenue in Manhattan, stocking shelves and ringing up sales. He’s worked at Barnes & Noble, Penguin, Knopf and Random House, grateful for the experience had and the friendships made, but he’s happiest now, playing with the gang at Other Press. His Twitter profile reads: “Bookman, birdman, living under blue skies on borrowed time.” Sounds about right.

Marjorie DeWitt, Assistant Editor
Marjorie grew up on Long Island, where she developed a life-long love for bagels and autumn. After majoring in English at Yale, she attended the Columbia Publishing Course, and in the fateful summer of 2010, got her first job at Other Press. Marjorie enjoys all kinds of books, from biology textbooks to young adult sagas, but she particularly loves anything dark or genre-bending with characters she can root for. When not reading, she is probably listening to music or seeking out the city’s best restaurants.

Sarah Reidy, Publicity Director
Born and raised in Atlanta, Sarah still can’t accept that she has to go to work when it snows – or that “y’all” is not a legitimate pronoun. Before working at Other Press, she completed stints at Dutton & Gotham Books, Soho Press, and Gallery Books. Her greatest literary achievement is finishing Ulysses, although she would much rather be curled up with Rebecca. Find her on Twitter at @sarah_reidy.

Terrie Akers, Manager, Online Publicity and Social Media
Terrie joined Other Press in 2004.  She spent several years in publicity before transitioning to the online realm, where she now administers the Other Press website, newsletter, and social media. Her bookshelves are an eclectic mess, but mostly filled with modern poetry and contemporary fiction. She loves Twitter and typewriters in equal measure.  After a decade in New York, she abandoned the east coast for Portland, OR in 2009.  Find her on Twitter at @terrieakers and (of course) @otherpress.

Carol Lazare, Subsidiary Rights Director
Carol began her publishing career right out of college at Pantheon Books. She has worked at Knopf, Harcourt (when it was Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and Doubleday/Broadway before leaving the corporate publishing world and joining Other Press. She loves working for an independent house where she is once again in direct contact with authors and where the rules we make are the rules we can break. When not at her desk, at a book fair, at a reading or reading, she’s probably at a movie, a museum, or a performance. She’s a culture vulture.

Yvonne Cárdenas, Production Editor
Yvonne joined Other Press in 2007, after twelve years in the San Francisco Bay Area. While studying writing systems as a graduate student in linguistic anthropology, she began taking notice of the architecture of the modern written word: typography. Her favorite novel not published by Other Press is W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, typeset in Eric Gill’s Perpetua.

Megan Feulner, Publicist
Megan Feulner has worked at Other Press since 2008. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, with degrees in English and Journalism. Megan’s purse is frequently weighed down with heavy tomes, like Nabokov’s biography or Beckett’s letter collection. Her two favorite things are Russian literature and French films.

Sophia Sherry, Marketing & Publicity Coordinator
Sophia hails from the Philadelphia area, with a passion for books, poetics and the art of conversation. She is a longstanding lover of Irish and French literatures, Classical languages, and lore, and the culture of the Far East. Having studied at Harvard and Oxford, she has worked for Pearson Education, the New Yorker magazine, and the Strand bookstore in New York City. She has been with Other Press since March of 2010.

Iisha Stevens, Operations Manager
A native New Yorker, Iisha spent seven years in public relations while attending the City College of New York, where she majored in Communications and Literature. She joined Other Press in 2006 and began her apprenticeship in book production. Now, she’s always exhilarated to walk into a bookstore and knowingly admire the physical elements of a well-constructed book. As manager of operations, she’s the one who binds it all together–if Other Press were a book, Iisha would be the spine.

Tynan Kogane, Editorial and Marketing Assistant
Originally from Seattle, Tynan graduated from The New School and arrived at Other Press after spending time at Bookforum and New Directions. Though he struggles to try everything, he particularly enjoys art, traveling (by plane, train, and armchair), and reading books by people who are possessed with the desire to learn. He writes fiction and several of his favorite authors are named Raymond.

Libby Riefler, Editorial and Marketing Assistant
Libby Riefler grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey.  After graduating from Bard College as a Literature and Creative Writing major, she joined independent publishing by way of Europa Editions.  She is now happily settled at Other Press, enjoys magic realism, folklore, and new gothic genres, as well as b horror movies and good pizza.

Bill Foo, Chief Financial Officer

Ed Sokolowski, Controller