Jeffrey Lependorf
Executive Director
jlependorf@clmp.org
Jeffrey Lependorf, CLMP's Executive Director, has over twenty years of experience in development, fundraising, corporate sponsorship, and strategic planning. He serves simultaneously as a "shared executive director" for Small Press Distribution (http://www.spdbooks.org) and the Literary Ventures Fund (http://www.literaryventuresfund.org). His past work experience includes Development Director for the Creative Capital Foundation, Bette Midler's New York Restoration Project, the Poetry Society of America, and In the Life Media. He is also a professional musician, active as a composer, a "certified master" of the shakuhachi (traditional Japanese bamboo flute), and serves as Director of Music Omi, an international music residency program in upstate New York. His Masterpieces of Western Music audiocourse is available through Barnes and Noble's "Portable Professor" series.
Jay Baron Nicorvo
Membership Director
jnicorvo@clmp.org
As Membership Director, Jay organizes LPC}AWP, CLMP's literary publishers conference at AWP, and LWC}NYC, CLMP's literary writers conference at The New School. He curates Periodically Speaking: Literary Magazine Editors Introducing Emerging Writers at The New York Public Library. He edits The Literary Press and Magazine Directory, and he serves CLMP's members in every way possible. He's an assistant editor at Ploughshares and PEN America, and his stories and poems appear or are forthcoming in Subtropics, Hayden's Ferry Review, Gulf Stream, Washington Square, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
Jamie Schwartz
Programs Director
jschwartz@clmp.org
Jamie directs the New York Technical Assistance Program (NYTAP) for literary publishers, which includes publisher seminars, virtual roundtables, a literary mentorship program, the NYTAP regrant program, as well as travel grant awards. She also manages CLMP's national technical assistance program for independent literary publishers and organizes CLMP’s popular literary magazine and small press fairs across the country. Jamie holds an MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and currently serves as an Associate Fiction Editor at Fence magazine. One of her short stories recently debuted in The Literary Review.
Tasha Sorenson
Development Associate/Office Manager
tsorenson@clmp.org
Tasha Sorenson, Membership & Development Associate/Office Manager, handles the daily operations of CLMP while assisting all other aspects of the organization. She fields general queries and offers sound advice. She also co-curates the reading series Periodically Speaking: Literary Magazine Editors Introducing Emerging Writers at the New York Public Library. Before coming to CLMP, she interned at Hanging Loose and earned a BFA from Pratt Institute's Writing for Performance, Publication and Media program. Tasha is a member of The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Oregon.
Ira Sher
Website Coordinator
webmaster@clmp.org
Ira Sher manages the ongoing maintenance and development of CLMP's site and advises on other technical matters. In addition to designing and maintaining numerous websites in the literary community, Ira writes fiction. He has two novels, Gentlemen of Space (Free Press, 2003) and Singer (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), and his stories have appeared in many venues.
Jim Bildner (ex-officio)
New Horizon Partners, LLC
Ira Silverberg (Co-President)
Sterling Lord Literistic
Nicole Dewey (Co-President)
Director of Publicity
Henry Holt and Company
Constance B. Sayre (Secretary)
Market Partners International
Ellis B. Levine, Esq. (Treasurer)
Partner, Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP
Suzanna de Baca
Vice-President, Affluent and Segment Strategies
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
Elizabeth Bogner
Editor
Robert Casper
Programs Director
Poetry Society of America
Patricia Grodd
Psychotherapist
Gerald Howard
Executive Editor
Doubleday
David Kiefer
Managing Director
Jennison Associates
Binnie Kirshenbaum
Author
Columbia University Faculty
Sara Nelson
Editor-in-Chief
Publishers Weekly
Clarence Reynolds
Black Issues Book Review
Julie Schaper
President and Chief Operating Officer
Consortium Book Sales
Johnny Temple
Publisher
Akashic Books