About UNO Press

Meet the UNO Press Staff

Abram Shalom Himelstein, Editor in Chief
Five favorite books: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson; The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa; Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks; Syllabus by Lynda Barry; Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman.

Jessica Brasseur, Graduate Assistant 
Five favorite books: Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte;  And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William S Burroughs; Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore; Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. 

G.K. Darby, Managing Editor
Five favorite books: Off the Map by Hib and Kika; The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker; Quake by Rudolph Wurlitzer; Talking to Myself by Studs Terkel; Hierarchy Theory by Valerie Ahl and T.F.H. Allen.

Alex Dimeff, Book Designer
Five favorite books: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco; By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño; The Notebook by Agota Kristoff; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Middlemarch by George Eliot.

Chelsey Shannon, Editor
Five favorite books: Quicksand by Nella Larsen; Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote; To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.

Christian Stenico, UNO Press/Center Austria Publishing Fellow
Five favorite books: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams; Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller.