Lisa Bowden, master printer, book designer & editor, co-founded Kore Press in 1993 and served as Executive Director for 11 years. She has been co-directing the Press since 2004, with a focus on Artistic and Editorial programming. Lisa was Production Manager (designing, hand typesetting, printing and binding) at Chax Press in Tucson, Arizona; and Senior Designer at the University of Arizona Press, designing 25 books a year and garnering two University Press awards. In 2005 she received an ADDY Award (the world's largest advertising creative contest) for a design collaborative on conference materials for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She has served on non-profit boards of directors for 19 years.

A graduate of the University of Arizona English Department, Lisa also attended college in England and taught English language to teenagers in Spain. She is the editor of the audio anthology Autumnal: A Collection of Elegies, and writes essays and letters.

   

Shannon Cain became the Executive Director of Kore Press in 2004. She was Executive Director of the Women’s Health Education Project, an East Harlem-based social service agency; President of Cain & Company Fundraising; and Executive Director of the Amazon Foundation, a private philanthropy. She has served on more than a dozen grantmaking panels and nonprofit boards of directors.

Shannon is the recipient of a 2006 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2008 O. Henry Prize. Her short stories have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review and the New England Review. She earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has taught fiction writing at the University of Arizona. Her stories have been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. She is currently at work on a novel. Learn more at www.shannoncain.com.

   

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