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Berkshire Team
Bagg, MarySenior Editorinfo [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of Massachusetts at Amherst B.A. English Mary grew up in Philadelphia, studied painting, drawing, and art history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and then defected from city life to the Berkshires. Switching focus to study literature, she earned a BA in English at UMass Amherst, and then settled in the hills above the Pioneer Valley. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, when extensive arts coverage was a priority for the alternative weekly newspaper the Valley Advocate, Mary reviewed exhibitions and installations at major museums all over western Massachusetts. She wrote on dance, theater, and books, but as the paper’s associate editor she also trained interns and handled the routine editorial tasks that helped “put the paper to bed” every Tuesday night. Mary launched her freelance career with work on a Taunton “How To” publication. Since then she has written executive summaries of studies on bilingual education and English-language-immersion programs, published book reviews in the Boston Globe, and edited individual authors on a wide range of projects—from a memoir of life in France during the prewar summer of 1938, for instance, to a study on the intersection between food and art in the Italian Renaissance. With her husband Robert Bagg, a poet and translator of ancient Greek drama, she co-authored the notes and introduction to his volume The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles. Mary’s serendipitous introduction to Berkshire Publishing came about in 2004; she has worked on nearly every volume Berkshire has published since. Top Christensen, RachelProject Coordinatorrachel [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of Vermont B.S. Botany Rachel spent her first few years in London before moving to the Northeast in 1990. She attended college at the University of Vermont, and has been the project coordinator of This Fleeting World, This is China and the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese biography. In her spare time she enjoys creating websites, hiking and swimming. She especially enjoys novels such as Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the Narnia series by C.S. Lewis and a variety of nonfiction. Top Siever, BillProject Coordinatorbill [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com University of Connecticut B.A. English Bill Siever and his wife Amy, both natives of Connecticut, arrived in the Berkshires in 2008 after having lived in Northampton, Mass., Portland, Maine, and Yellowstone National Park. Now they live in an apartment right next to Berkshire Publishing, which means Bill has one of the best commutes in the world. Bill is a huge fan of the outdoors and is enjoying Great Barrington's close proximity to the Appalachian Trail and numerous other places to walk, bike, and look at other people's gardens. He is the technophobic black sheep of a family of technology nerds who is slowly and painfully learning how to operate Microsoft Access and imbed HTML codes, among other daunting tasks. He has been known to black out at the mention of the word “metadata.” His favorite books include Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. He enjoys crossword puzzles and once entered the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, Conn., made famous by the movie Wordplay. He came in around 242nd place out of around 400 contestants, which he considers to be pretty good considering all the people whose profession (as listed on the sign-up sheet) was “crossword puzzle constructor.”
Bill also enjoys traveling; he and Amy have enjoyed several long distance hikes in England, which always involve beer at odd hours of the day and close encounters with livestock.
Top Winseck, AshleyProject Coordinatorashley [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com Sacred Heart University B.A. English Ashley, a Berkshire County native and life long book-lover, spent five years living and studying in Southern Connecticut where she worked in various editorial and publicity positions. She returned to her home town in December 2008 and immediately rejoined the team at Berkshire (she was an intern during the summer of 2006). When she’s not working she can be found wandering around one of the many local libraries and bookstores. Top Young, TrevorIT Support Servicestrevor [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com British-born Trevor Young has been running his computer consulting company since the early 1980s, providing computer support to Berkshire Publishing since 1997. He developed our original database system, built our NT-based PC network and helped in our choice of software. Trevor continues to program our Intranet-based database system and its web-based extensions. When he is not being such a geek, he plays bass in a rock band. His favorite books include My Early Years by Winston Churchill, Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, Flight by Chris Kraft, George Fraser's Flashman series, and anything by John Wyndham. TopMyers, AnnaGraphic Designeranna [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com Western Connecticut State University M.F.A. Illustration Anna Myers has been a Great Barrington native since the age of two (formerly hailing from Baltimore, Maryland). She inherited a love of books and the arts from her musician father and artist mother. Her sister also caught the art bug at an early age. Anna has been a freelance illustrator since 2007, and a web and graphic designer since 2001. Top Christensen, TomAssociate Directortom [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com Grinnell College B.A. Anthropology Thomas Christensen has been working for Berkshire over the last ten years. After graduating with a degree in Anthropology, he managed the production of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, the first English-language work on such a scale in half a century. He is currently Berkshire's representative in China, based in Beijing, while using the miracles of skype to remain in touch with the home office on a day-to-day basis. He enjoys reading old classics, a hobby from when he's lived in smaller Chinese cities and they were all that were available, and watches plenty of Chinese DVD's (of which he has been carefully assured none are pirated versions) in his free time. Top
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