Writers & Books, the Rochester-based literary center, has named Alison Meyers as its next executive director.
She replaces Joe Flaherty, the founding director of the organization who returned last November in an interim director role.
Meyers currently works as a literary arts consultant.
From 2006-2016, she was executive director of Cave Canem Foundation, an organization for African American poets and poetry.
She also has served as director of development at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses in New York City, poetry director and director of marketing at Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Conn., and general manager of the Oberlin (Ohio) Consumers Co-op.
“I’m thrilled to join the committed Writers & Books team, and look forward to building on an inspirational legacy bequeathed by founding director Joe Flaherty,” Meyers said. “I look forward to partnering with the organization’s terrific staff, board of directors, and volunteers; engaging with Rochester’s rich history and diverse communities; and helping advance the critical role literature has to play, regionally and nationally, in our complicated times.”
