Jake Bonar, an acquisitions editor at Globe Pequot Press, has been chosen to serve on the board of the Western New York Book Arts Center.
WNYBAC is a community print shop and studio for letterpress, screen printing, book binding, and paper making. Established in 2006, it is a nonprofit working museum dedicated to preserving the book arts through collaboration and innovation, bridging antique equipment and processes with modern artmaking techniques, and celebrating the heritage of Buffalo’s’ printing industry.
Bonar graduated magna cum laude from Canisius with a major in creative writing in 2014. He was part of a Quadrangle team that designed and handprinted a letterpress cover of the annual literary magazine at WNYBAC on a vintage Vandercook press known affectionately as Mandy the Mangler. Bonar worked as an editorial intern at America magazine in New York the summer before his senior year, and, after graduation, he studied at the Denver Publishing Institute.
In his current position, Bonar is director of North Country Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot, which focuses on books from the New York region. Recent and forthcoming titles on his list include Thomas Reigstad’s The Illustrated Mark Twain and The Buffalo Express, fellow Canisius alum Paul Cumbo’s A Path to Manhood: Encouragement and Advice for Young Men, and Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children’s Series by Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino, and Pam Johnson.
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Submitted by: Mick Cochrane, professor, English
