Lucas Wittmann has been appointed executive director of the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City. He was formerly editorial director of TIME, overseeing the Ideas and Opinion sections. Before that, he worked at W.W. Norton and Regan Arts, and was literary editor of the Daily Beast and Newsweek. Wittmann also co-founded the nonprofit House of Speakeasy, which hosts literary cabarets at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater and brings writers into New York City schools. His writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, and Time.
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Francine Yulo has been promoted to marketing and sales manager at Drawn & Quarterly. She began her career at Drawn & Quarterly as a bookseller in 2020. A year later, she was promoted to editorial assistant to the publisher and executive editor, where, among other duties, she co-edited Giant Robot: 30 Years of Defining Asian-American Culture. Yulo sits on the advisory board for the Montreal Comic Arts Festival and is the incoming treasurer for the Association of English Language Publishers of Quebec.