Kendra Boileau is the Publisher of Graphic Mundi and the Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief of Penn State University Press. Following a graduate degree in French literature from Indiana University, she has worked as an acquisitions editor in university press publishing for the past twenty years. In 2011, Boileau signed and developed the Graphic Medicine book series, which is the basis from which the Graphic Mundi imprint will launch in 2021. She has been a judge for the Lynd Ward Prize for the Best Graphic Novel of the Year and in 2020 was appointed to the Lynd Ward Prize Advisory Board. Boileau is also a French-to-English translator of graphic novels.
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Gina Gagliano is the Publishing Director of Random House Graphic, Random House’s dedicated publisher of kids and YA graphic novels. She sits on Random House Children’s Books Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee and Outreach Committees. Prior to working at Random House Children’s Books, she was most recently Associate Director, Marketing & Publicity at First Second Books. She’s the co-chair of the Brooklyn Book Festival’s comics committee; and in the past she’s coordinated programming and events for the Splat! Graphic Novel Symposium, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, and the Toronto Comics Art Festival. She co-runs the informal Women in Comics Publishing NYC events series (with Abby Denson), and co-hosts the informational graphic novel publishing podcast Graphic Novel TK (with Alison Wilgus). You can find her online at @_GinaGagliano.
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John Jennings is a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside. Jennings is co-editor of the Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of the Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Jennings is also a 2016 Nasir Jones Hip Hop Studies Fellow with the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. Jennings' current projects include the horror anthology Box of Bones, the coffee table book Black Comix Returns (with Damian Duffy), and the Eisner-winning, Bram Stoker Award-winning, New York Times best-selling graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic dark-fantasy novel Kindred. Jennings is also founder and curator of the ABRAMS Megascope line of graphic novels.
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