Lynn Henry, a 15-year veteran of the Canadian book industry, is to become the publisher of Anansi Press, a premier independent publishing house.
Henry has worked at small and large presses alike, including Raincoast Books, and has developed a career editing the works of Anosh Irani, Bill Gaston, Colin McAdam, George Elliot Clarke, Shani Mootoo, Aislinn Hunter and George Bowering, among others.
A member of the Editors' Association of Canada and a graduate of the Banff Publishing Workshop, Henry is also a professor for the summer publishing workshops at Simon Fraser University.
She begins at Anansi at the end of August.