Milkweed Editions

Hans Weyandt manages Milkweed Books, the independent bookstore located in Open Book and operated by Milkweed Editions. With over twenty years of bookselling experience, including as co-owner of Micawbers Books in St. Paul, Hans is also the editor of Read This: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores—essential reading for any bibliophiles looking to round out their collections.

Joanna R. Demkiewicz is the marketing director at Milkweed Editions and former publicist for the press. Prior to joining Milkweed in 2016, she worked as a publicist for the Bryant-Lake Bowl theater and restaurateur Kim Bartmann. For five years, she co-ran a print and digital magazine, The Riveter, which celebrated narratives and journalism by women and nonbinary folx. A graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School, she also serves as a freelance editor for The Sager Group’s Women in Journalism anthology series and her writing can be found in Nylon, Guernica, Literary Hub, and The Los Angeles Review.

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Meagan Bachmayer is the development director at Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed Editions in 2016, she worked in the office of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, where she was deputy state director for operations. Before working for the Senator, she served as director of marketing and development for Women Winning, a group that advocates to elect more women to public office, and as deputy finance director for the Minnesota House of Representatives DFL Caucus. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2008 with a degree in political science.

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Joey McGarvey is the senior editor at Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed in 2015, she was an editor at Ballantine Bantam Dell and Alfred A. Knopf, both imprints of Penguin Random House. She earned her MA in nineteenth-century American literature and history at New York University, and her BA in English from Stanford University.