Founder

Audrey Niffenegger is an internationally known author and artist. Her novel The Time Traveler’s Wife was made into a movie in 2009 and an HBO series in 2022, written by Steven Moffat. Her graphic novel Raven Girl was the basis for a Wayne McGregor ballet at the Royal Opera House Ballet.

Interim Co-President &
Programming Chair

Ken Gerleve is a visual artist and designer who has exhibited works in Chicago and New York City. He earned his MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College, Chicago in 2009 and his BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Interim Co-President & Merchandising Chair

Eileen Madden is the co-owner and operator of Evanston Print and Paper – a letterpress print shop. She opened that business fifteen years ago after teaching English at Maine East high school.

Treasurer & Finance Chair

Eileen Pollard is an accountant currently working in downtown Chicago at the firm John R. Waters & Company where she prepares income tax returns. Prior to this, she has worked in the Trusts & Estates department at HMB Legal Counsel developing an expertise in accounting for trusts and in the preparation of tax workpapers. 

Interim Secretary

Hannah Batsel is a book artist, writer, and illustrator based in Chicago, IL. Originally from Marietta, GA, Batsel received her BFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of Georgia in 2011 and her MFA in the same from Columbia College Chicago in 2016.

Juliet C. Bond, LCSW is a therapist, Director of Development, and children’s book writer from Evanston, IL. Juliet C. Bond, LCSW, is deeply engaged in making connections between story and clinical intervention.

Melissa Jay Craig is a sculptor, book and installation artist whose primary medium is handmade paper. She lives and works in Chicago, where she is represented by ZIA Gallery.

Since 1987 Tom Greensfelder has run his own design firm, Greensfelder Design, in Chicago. His clients have included Broadway In Chicago; the Grant Park Music Festival; the Illinois Humanities Council; AFSCME Council 31; cartoonists Nicole Hollander and Lynda Barry, and performers Bucky Halker, Tony Sacre, Tom Mula and Michael Fosberg.

Riva Khoshaba Parker is Vice President, Labor & Employment/ Litigation for Airlines of America. Before taking her current position, she was the Chief, Labor Counselor & Litigation for the Office of the Judge Advocate General at the Pentagon, and has also worked in litigation with several large, nationally ranked law firms.

FACILITIES CHAIR

Carol Prieto has lived in Evanston since 1975. She has been deeply involved in Evanston’s institutions, including the public schools and PTAs (at Washington, Chute, and ETHS).

Governance Chair

Jeff Rosen writes on the history of photography and the origins of photomechanical printing. His recent publications have focused on the work of the Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, in relation to questions of colonialism and empire, the formation of British national identity, and the cultural symbolism of triumph and mourning as expressed in Cameron’s allegorical photographs.

Todd Summar is a writer (speculative fiction, essays, interviews), editor, and marketing professional living in Northern Illinois. His work can be seen in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Literary Hub, the Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere.