Steph Opitz is joining Bookshop.org as the director of strategic partnerships. She was the founding director of Wordplay at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and is a visiting instructor at the University of Minnesota. She serves on committees for the National Book Foundation, PEN America and LitNet and was literary director of the Texas Book Festival, the fiction co-chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival, and on the programs team for the PEN World Voices Festival. She was also the books reviewer for Marie Claire magazine for six years.
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Samantha Kralstein is joining American Psychiatric Association Publishing as licensing coordinator on February 22. She was previously business development strategist with Barnes & Noble.