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Meet the Lead Designer of The Viking House Saga and A Portrait of Grief and Courage

December 10, 2023 / / 0 Comments

The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same  way we print books at the Press! 

Emily Heling was lead designer for two  Teaching Press titles in 2023: The Viking House Saga: A Journey into Experiential Archeology at UW-Green Bay, by Owen Christianson and Heidi Sherman (October 2023), and A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, by Sandra Shackelford (December 2023). Her design work included researching Old Norse carvings and Hmong story cloths, boosting photo quality for color and black and white images, designing book covers and interiors, choosing fonts and colors, and meeting about  style options with three different authors.

 


A book cover depicting a Hmong woman holding a picture

Meet the Project Manager and Chief Copyeditor of A Portrait of Grief and Courage

December 10, 2023 / / 0 Comments

The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same  way we print books at the Press! 

Olivia Meyer became the Project Manager on A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, in early 2023, when the manuscript was still part of a collection Sandra Shackelford was arranging to donating to the UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library Archives. She met with the author, guided the project through its full year of workflow, collaborated on the book’s “Introduction,” and wrote the biographies of  translator May Lee Lor and transcriber Ma Lee Lor.

Kat Halfman has been the Chief Copyeditor of this title since early 2023. She created the most ambitious style guide The Teaching Press has encountered, standardizing spelling of  numerous individuals’ names and dozens of place names from multiple spellings from multiple translations; researching the use editorial  conventions in oral histories; and leading two semesters’ staffs through multiple rounds of copyediting.

 

 

I Would Love to Stay Here!

Meet the Interns: Promotion, Publicity, and A Portrait…

December 10, 2023 / / 0 Comments

The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same  way we print books at the Press! 

This team of Fall 2023 interns focused on creating engagement and interest in our books, especially our 2022 titles Call Me Morgue and Wandering Toft Point: A Nature Journal. They brainstormed memes and campaigns—one even took a road trip up to Toft Point for blog and social media content.  They also fact-checked and copyedited the page proofs of A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales.  for which they created the Media Kit, designing the project web page, writing  blog posts, and conducting  the author interview.

 

Meet the Interns: Promotion, Production, and A Viking House Saga

December 10, 2023 / / 0 Comments

The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same  way we print books at the Press! 

This group of interns  focused on creating press publicity for our titles, including our Fall 2023 launch of The Viking House Saga: A Journey into Experiential Learning at UW-Green Bay, by Owen Christianson and Heidi Sherman. After a quick summer of editing and designing this book, Manager Matthew Everard and our team were still ready to launch in time for the Midwest Viking Festival in October.  They also worked on printing The Lower Fox River PCB Clean Up , creating publicity for our other titles, and copyediting A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales.

 

December 10, 2023

The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same  way we print books at the Press!

This group of interns operated our machines and print our books—and Fall 2023 was challenging! Managers Jair Zeuske and Ethan Craft taught our team how to print, bind, and trim two of our titles this semester. Their favorite book to print is Wandering Toft Point: A Nature Journal.  See how our team crafted our Lower Fox River PCB Clean Up book with its fold-in, fold-out timeline and QR codes on every page, in a behind-the-scenes report from our team. They also engaged in community outreach with Sullivan Elementary School’s YMCA Afterschool program, and copyedited  A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales.

 

Meet the Press Director

December 10, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Who gets to work with all of these amazing interns? Meet the Press Director!

Dr. Rebecca Meacham founded The Teaching Press in 2018 and, with the Press’s first interns,  launched the first book, The Village and The Vagabond by Tim Weyenberg, in 2019. Since then, she’s worked with over 100 interns on a wide range of stories of our region, created two imprints, and engaged the Press in community outreach events and collaborations.  An author of three books of prose, she  is a professor of English, Writing, and Humanities, and founder and Chair of the Writing and Applied Arts B.F.A. program.

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