Staff

Stephen Motika: Publisher 
email: info (at) nightboat (dot) org

Stephen Motika is the publisher of Nightboat Books. He is also the director of public programs and exhibitions at Poets House in New York. He is the author of the book Western Practice (2012) and two poetry chapbooks:Arrival and At Mono (2007) and In the Madrones (2011), and the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009).

Kazim Ali: Founding Editor
email: info (at) nightboat (dot) org

Kazim Ali co-founded Nightboat Books with Jennifer Chapis in 2003 and served as its publisher from 2004-2007. He edits books for Nightboat and serves as President of the Board of Directors. He is the author of three books of poems, The Far Mosque, The Fortieth Daya, and Sky Ward, and the novels Quinn’s Passage and The Disappearance of Seth. His books of essays inclideBright Felon: Autobiography and Cities, Orange Alert, and Fasting for Ramadan. He teaches at Oberlin College and in the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. He is currently a visiting professor in the Creative Writing MFA program at St. Mary's College of California.

Jennifer Chapis: Founding Editor
email: info (at) nightboat (dot) org

Jennifer Chapis co-founded Nightboat Books with Kazim Ali in 2003 and served as an executive editor until 2006. She is the Vice President of the Board of Directors. She is the author of the chapbook, The Beekeeper’s Departure, and a limited-edition broadside, Poem as Salad.

Board of Directors

Kazim Ali, Jennifer Chapis, Sarah Heller, Sean Safford, Kevin Vaughan-Brubaker

Founding Advisory Committee

Michael Burkard, Lucille Clifton (1936-2010), Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Melissa Hammerle, Brenda Hillman, Galway Kinnell, Alberto Rios, Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010), Prageeta Sharma, Anne Tardos, and Jean Valentine.