The University of New Mexico Press has announced that Hilda Raz is the new editor of its Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series. Raz recently stepped down as editor of Prairie Schooner, the literary journal she led since 1987. The author of 13 books, Raz was the Luschei Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Her most recent book is What Happens (University of Nebraska Press, 2009).
MaryKatherine Callaway, director of the Louisiana State University Press, was elected president of the Association of American University Presses. Callaway has led the LSU Press since 2003. Previously, she was marketing director for the Johns Hopkins University Press.