About the Ann Arbor Book Festival

The Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture of the written word in Michigan and beyond. A diverse group of community leaders committed to literature, language and the arts in Michigan are hard at work planning the Festival. The following people make up the Board of Directors and Planning Committee for the Festival.

Board of Directors
Chairman:
Evans Young, College of Literature Science and the Arts, University of Michigan

Secretary:
Lori Tucker-Sullivan, Independent Booksellers Consortium, Inc.

Treasurer:
William Gosling, University of Michigan Library

Executive Director:
Kathy Robenalt, Ann Arbor Book Festival

Bill Zirinsky, Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tearoom
Thomas Blaske, Blaske & Blaske, P.L.C.
Sharon Gambin, Community Volunteer
Jeff Kass, Ann Arbor Public Schools/VOLUME Poetry
Joan Knoertzer, "The Library" Bed and Breakfast/Detroit Book Clubs
Karl Pohrt, Shaman Drum Bookshop
Keith Taylor, University of Michigan, Department of English
Joseph Upton, Malloy Inc.
John Knott, Writer/Editor/Professor (ret.)
Heather Neff, Eastern Michigan University English Department / Writer
Prudence Rosenthal, Arts Activist
Peter Schork, Ann Arbor State Bank
John Woodford, Writer/Editor
Barbara MacAdam, AUL for Public Services, University of Michigan Library

Planning Committee
Tim Grimes
Lori Tucker-Sullivan
Curtis and Liz Sullivan
Jeff Kass
Anne Jackson
Suzanne Clausnitzer
Amy Goodman
Nancy Shaw
Jane Ozanich
Bernadette Quist
Susan Brady
Gretchen Farah
Linda Tubbs
Anne Landgraf
Lucy White
Mary Lou Slater
Mychelle Martin
Melanie Kiel
Natalie Davidson
Glenn Auerbach
Cynthia Ransley
Mike Hogan
Chloe Miller
Hillary Dorwart
Anna Peterson
Karen Kortesoja
Diane Rohde