Dzanc Books annouunced yesterday that it has hired former Coffee House Press publicist Lauren Snyder as their part-time publicist. "I am thrilled to be working with Dzanc and with Dan Wickett in particular, who I've long admired for his passionate work on behalf of good literature and his boundless energy," Snyder emailed us this morning. "Dzanc is a really exciting project and I can't wait to see the books out and about, finding the readers they deserve."

The non-profit publisher also formalized its relationship with Steven Seighman by making him the company's art director and webmaster. Seighman had already designed all the covers for forthcoming Dzanc titles like Roy Kesey's All Over and Yannick Murphy's In a Bear's Eye.