Our Staff
Lindsay Wright
Director of Educational Programs
Lindsay Wright is Director of the LARB Publishing Workshop, where she oversees an intensive summer program for aspiring publishers with 70 fellows and 60 plus industry speakers. She holds an MA from the University of Virginia, where she worked as Director of the Writing Center, designed an online writing curriculum, taught seminars on English and academic writing, and trained incoming teaching assistants for the Center for Teaching Excellence. She taught as a lecturer on English and the American publishing industry for the University of Paris X, Center for the Profession of the Book. As Director of Development for The Music Circle, an Indian music non-profit, Lindsay helped produce 6-8 concerts per year, created new foundation and donor relationships, and maintained partnerships with Occidental College, UCLA, Pasadena City College, and the Ford/LA Philharmonic.
Irene Yoon
Executive Director, LARB
Irene Yoon is the Executive Director of LARB, where she oversees the day-to-day operations and broader strategic vision and planning for the organization. For the last four years, Irene has also served as Director of the LARB Publishing Workshop. She earned her doctorate in English from UC Berkeley, where she also managed an interdisciplinary writing program and trained new teachers as the English Department’s Assistant Pedagogy Chair. Irene has worked with several authors to prepare books and articles for publication, and her own writing has appeared in journals such as Twentieth Century Literature, Transition Magazine, and Los Angeles Review of Books.
Emily Sunflower Thompson
Publishing Workshop Coordinator
Emily Thompson is a visual artist, writer, and educator from Long Beach, California. She is the Los Angeles Review of Books’ Publishing Workshop Coordinator and Publab journal’s Faculty Art Advisor. With over ten years of publishing experience, she has contributed to publications such as Berkeley Fiction Review, Saga Literary Journal, and PubLab. And her 35mm photography has been published in journals like Open Ceiling’s and UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice. She holds a BA in Film and Media Studies from UC Berkeley and will be joining UC Santa Cruz’s Film and Digital Media department as a PhD student in the fall. Emily first joined LARB in 2023 as a Summer Publishing Workshop intern.
Tobi Harper
Book Track Faculty
Tobi Harper is the deputy director at Red Hen Press, editor and founder of Quill (a queer publishing series of Red Hen Press), publisher of the Los Angeles Review, and a neurodivergent public speaker on queer literature, editing, and publishing.
Jonathan Hahn
Magazine Track Faculty