Mary Menzel is the director of the California Center for the Book, a reading promotion agency affiliated with the California State Library and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Mary is an avid reader of everything from horror stories to cookbooks, and she teaches a class at UCLA on Readers Advisory -- the art of matching readers with fiction and nonfiction that they’ll enjoy. Her undergraduate degree is a BA in Creative Writing: Poetry from Stanford University, and her MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) is from UCLA.

Mary Menzel is moderating the Poetry: A Visual Language panel during Session A.