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Mariela Griffor

Publisher

A native of Chile, Griffor was forced to flee the regime of Augusto Pinochet after the murder of her fiancé by agents of the dictator and threats against her own life. She spent 12 years in Sweden, where she met her husband, Edward Griffor, a native Detroiter and world-renowned mathematician. In 1998 the couple moved to Grosse Pointe Park, where they live with their two daughters. Griffor earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and a certificate in Montessori education, and is completing a master's degree in Media Studies at Wayne State University. She is a co-founder of the Detroit Institute for Creative Writers at Wayne State University, where she also served as Detroit Urban Woman Writer in Residence in 2003. She is curator of the Poets Follies reading series at the Grosse Pointe Artists Association. She is the author of Exiliana.

Peter Stern

Poetry Editor

Peter Stern is an internationally recognized editor of fiction and poetry. After many years as as staff editor, free-lance writer and journalist, Stern has brought to print new talent for over two decades. He has worked as lead poetry editor in New York, Los Angeles and London. Since beginning his career as a writring profession in the mid '70s, Stern has himself published criticism and essays. Stern is a graduate of the Free University of Berlin.

Sean Tai

Art Director

Sean Tai has been working as a typesetter for Random House of Canada and McClelland & Stewart for the last ten years. He has also done freelance book design for Marick Press, The Key Publishing, Luna Publications and others. He was one of the founding editors of Pagitica in Toronto magazine from 1999-2003. Sean grew up in Fredericton, N.B. and now lives in Toronto, Canada.

Elizabeth Myhr

Managing Editor

Elizabeth Myhr has published work in Alaska Quarterly Review, Kimera, Stringtown, Knock, The Armchair Classicist, Pontoon, and others, and currently serves as poetry editor for The Raven Chronicles and as a Managing Editor for Marick Press of Detroit, Michigan. She is enrolled in the MFA program at Seattle Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her husband and son.

Upcoming Events

May 16Marick Press Reading with Derick Burleson, David Dodd Lee and Eileen Pollack
May 16, 2012
6:00 pm
Tech Town located on 440 Burroughs, Detroit, MI

Marick Press presents a reading with acclaimed writer Eileen Pollack the author of Breaking and Entering, a NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE selection book.

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