Corrina Lesser, Assistant Director, Programming, joined the staff in June 2009. She focuses on literary arts programming and educational initiatives and resources for the Festival. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MA in Arts Administration & Policy) and Brandeis University (BA Sociology), she has worked as an editor and publicist for Adult Trade Books at Houghton Mifflin Company, in marketing for the Summer Session at Tufts University, and for the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she founded and curated LIT: A Poetics & Publishing Salon Series.
