Staff

Board of Advisors

Martin Blaser
Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, Chair, Department of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology, New York University Langone Medical Center

Daniel Ray
Marketing Research Consultant

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review

Elizabeth Widdicombe
President, W. H. Freeman and Worth Publishers

Erika Goldman
Editorial Director, Bellevue Literary Press

Jane S. Englebardt
Upshot Consulting

Jerome Lowenstein
Publisher, Bellevue Literary Press

Leslie Hodgkins
Assistant Editor, Bellevue Literary Press

Lawrence Gadd
President, Gadd and Company Publishers, Inc.

Mieko Willoughby
Executive Vice President, Headlands Asset Management, LLC

Ronna Wineberg
Senior Fiction Editor, Bellevue Literary Review

Jan Vilcek
Professor of Microbiology, New York University Langone Medical Center

Jerome Lowenstein, M.D., is the Publisher of Bellevue Literary Press and the Nonfiction Editor for Bellevue Literary Review. He has been Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine since 1977 and a practicing physician for over four decades. In 1979 he initiated the Program for Humanistic Aspects of Medical Education at New York University School of Medicine, which has become the model for many other similar programs at medical schools across the country. He is the author of Henderson's Equation (Gadd Books, 2008), The Midnight Meal and Other Essays about Doctors, Patients, and Medicine (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Acid and Basics: A Guide to Understanding Acid-Base Physiology (1993, Oxford University Press). He is the recipient of the 2008-2009 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award.

Erika Goldman, Editorial Director, has been an editor of fiction and nonfiction for over twenty years at several major publishing houses in New York City, including Scribner, Simon & Schuster and W. H. Freeman. She has edited books ranging from literary fiction to popular science including works by Marguerite Duras, Isaiah Berlin, the New York Times Science Times writer, Claudia Dreifus, and best-selling author/physicist James Trefil, among others. A recipient of the Jerusalem International Book Fair Editorial fellowship, she has taught at New York University's Center for Publishing and in the Creative Nonfiction Mentoring Program.

Leslie Hodgkins, Assistant Editor, has an MA in English from the University of Buffalo where he took courses in both the Poetics Program and the Center for Psychoanalysis and the Study of Culture. He is an advocate of independent publishing and has worked for RE/Search Publications in San Francisco and interned at Archipelago Books in Brooklyn.

Molly Mikolowski, Publicity and Marketing. Before joining BLP, Molly worked for Coffee House Press for ten years, where she acted as their Marketing, Publicity and Sales Director. The daughter of letterpress publishers, she has also worked as a bookseller.