July 21 Guests

ERIC GINSBERG
In 2003, Eric Ginsberg, an avid musician and songwriter, founded a music education-focused non-profit in his native NJ. Not knowing how else to spread the word, he started calling local newspapers, magazines and radio stations, unwittingly beginning a media relations and marketing career. Though a Math Education major working full-time as a teacher, Ginsberg took the advice of a local Editor in Chief and pursued a PR job at the largest independent library system in the state. The time he spent there gave Eric great insight into the habits and activities of readers and into the non-profit book-lending world. He is now the Marketing VP of BookSwim, the Netflix for books, a position to which he brought his library experience, helping shape BookSwim into the well-rounded company it has become. Eric is considered to be “the voice of BookSwim,” responsible for online copy as well as presenting BookSwim’s unique message to the media and at conferences around the country.

ANNE BRITTING OLESON
Anne Britting Oleson is a writer and teacher who lives in the mountains of central Maine with her family.  Her work has appeared in literary magazines in 48 states, Great Britain and Canada; some of those magazines include The Cafe Review, Main Street Rag, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Limestone.  Her first chapbook, The Church of St. Materiana, was published by Moon Pie Press in 2007; her second, The Beauty of It, is forthcoming from Sheltering Pines Press next month.  She earned her MFA from the Stonecoast program of the University of Southern Maine, and is a founding member of Simply Not Done, a women’s reading, writing and teaching collective.