About me
An East Bay Area native who fell in love with the PNW, I worked as the PSU Graduate School Format Editor reviewing theses and dissertations, interned with local nonprofit Literary Arts supporting marketing and author events, and spent my master's program as Marketing & Publicity Manager for Ooligan Press.
A publishing professional known for wearing many hats, I hold a M.A. in Book Publishing from Portland State University and a B.A. in Linguistics, English, and Professional Writing from UC Davis.
I discovered my passion for visual functionality in publishing, combining my interests in marketing and editorial (and freelance photography experience) to assess productive presentation of material; my research in accessible children's publishing was featured at the GW Ethics in Publishing conference in October 2025 and will be at the BYU Research in Editing and Publishing Conference in August 2026.
I started as a Marketing Coordinator at C&T Publishing in Fall 2025 where I collaborate with our authors and instructors on marketing their books, products, and courses, coordinate our presence at tradeshows, and support Creative Spark Online Learning evergreen courses and live events.
When I'm not dogearing paperbacks, you can find me slow hiking with my camera or wandering a local farmers market.
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Your “Ask the Experts” consult schedule is:
Fri May 15, 9:15am-9:40am
Table 7
Group
Marketing
Karla Olson, Patagonia
Sat May 16, 1:20pm-1:35pm
Table 7B
One-on-One
Marketing
Jesse Lakes
Sat May 16, 2:50pm-3:05pm
Table 2B
One-on-One
Children's & YA Publishing
Maria Dismondy, Cardinal Rule Press
Sat May 16, 3:10pm-3:25pm
Table 2A
One-on-One
General Publishing Consultancy
Leigh Pierce, IngramSpark
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