Washington Writers' Publishing House

The Executive Board of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House features writers published by the press. These writers have a cross-section of experience in publishing, editing, higher education, marketing, public relations, and public policy. As the longest, continuously operating nonprofit cooperative literary press in the United States, our mission is to foster the richness and the diversity of the literary arts in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and to bring the literary excellence of all writers in our region to a wider audience. 

• Caroline Bock

  Co-President

• Jona Colson

  Co-President

• Elizabeth Bruce

  Vice President, Compliance

• Kathleen Wheaton

  Vice President, Fiction

• Len Kruger

  Treasurer

• Melanie Hatter

  Secretary

• Robert Williams

  Vice President, Production

• Holly Karapetkova

  Vice President, Poetry

• Bernardine Watson

  Member at Large

• Steven Leyva

  Member at Large