Hallie Warshaw
Publisher and Creative Director |
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Hallie is the founder of Orange Avenue Publishing and Zest Books. After spending most of her teenage years making scrapbooks, collages, murals, and generally a lot of mess with a lot of art supplies, Hallie went on to receive a BA from Clark University and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Hallie began her career as a graphic designer in Hong Kong and Japan where she worked for several design firms. She then returned to her native New York where she became an art director in the educational publishing group at Scholastic.
After moving to San Francisco in 1996, Hallie worked as an interactive designer for a web based design firm. She eventually decided to go back to her love of books and, in 2000, founded Orange Avenue Publishing. In 2006 Hallie saw the opportunity for creating fun, hip advice books for teens, and founded Zest Books as the teen imprint of Orange Avenue Publishing.
Hallie lives in San Francisco with her multicolored dog, Baci—a regular contributor to meetings at Orange Avenue. Even though Hallie owns the company, she still makes time to play around with the office art supplies.
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Karen Macklin
Editorial Director |
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Karen Macklin is a San Francisco-based writer, editor, teacher, and dedicated yogi. She grew up in Brooklyn, and started her journalism career, at 22, at a small newspaper in Manhattan. Since then, she has written for more than a dozen publications nationally, including the New York Times, San Francisco Weekly, and Yoga Journal on arts, culture, travel, health, and Eastern spirituality. Her creative works, which include plays and poetry, have been produced and published in the United States and Italy. She holds a B.A. from University at Albany, and both an M.A. in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Karen has traveled and lived all over the world, and returned last year from a 9-month State Department fellowship teaching journalism in Guatemala City. She loves working with teenagers and helping to empower young people. (Down with The Man!)
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Cari McLaughlin
Production and Project Manager |
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Cari grew up in Sebastopol, California and has always embraced a creative lifestyle. Designing stationery for family and friends, playing soccer, and collecting found artwork are some of her favorite pastimes. In pursuit of a creative career, Cari attended California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo to study Graphic Communication, and Art and Design. During her studies, she interned at Mrs. Grossman’s Paper Company, and served as a graphic designer for a small studio. Book arts were always a major focus, as demonstrated by her senior project in which she designed a book specifically for autistic children, Willy Dilly Whale. After graduating in 2005, she moved to San Francisco and joined Orange Avenue. She believes the book is the perfect creative source: it is simultaneously an art, a craft, and a vehicle for learning.
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Tanya Napier
Art Director |
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Tanya Napier is an art director, graphic designer and sometimes writer. She is author of The Totally TEA-rific TEA PARTY Book, Little Skills and Mini Manners, and co-author of Girl in a Funk. Tanya grew up in merry old England but left for America to get a bachelor degree from Brown University. She then made her way across the United States working variously as a journalist in New England, a copywriter for HarperCollins in New York, and a graphic designer for the South Carolina Department of Commerce. When she finally reached the west coast Tanya felt right at home in the fog by the Bay. She settled in San Francisco and joined Orange Avenue in 2000.
Tanya currently lives in Noe Valley with her husband, her new baby, and a delinquent feline named Tarka. She spends a good deal of time trying to cat proof her garden, child proof her house, and painting her home interesting shades of orange.
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| Zest Books Teen Advisory Board |
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The members of the Zest Books Teen Advisory Board are an integral part of our company. They serve as interns and work on all aspects of the publishing process, from concepting new books to fact-checking and editing manuscripts to advising us on cover designs. They also just generally keep things real in the office. Our teen advisors are from different Bay Area high schools and were selected based on their interests and accomplishments in writing, reading, editing, and teen culture. This past year, they wrote their own book, Been There, Survived That, which we are publishing in the spring. If you are interested in becoming a teen advisor, send a letter of interest to Karen Macklin at Karen@orangeavenue.com.
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