Our founding editor, Saundra Norton, is an academic who grew up in university settings as the child of academics. In addition to doctoral work in 19th-century American literature, she has an MA in bibliographical studies from TAMU and a certificate in publishing from Rice University, with a particular interest in the History of the Book and book publishing. She has been a contributor to the World Shakespeare Bibliography. She holds an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College where she created programs and was a poetry editor for Lumina.
She has lived in Scotland, Florence, Prague, and Paris and has studied at Goethe-Institut, Freiburg and Institut de Français, Villefranche-sur-Mer. She has a working knowledge of French, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Czech, and German. As the director of outreach at a nationally ranked Liberal Arts College, Saundra has has written and edited grant proposals, annual reports, book manuscripts, and web and brand content. She has worked with Foundation, Government, and Corporate Relations, faculty, and administrators to pursue external funding for research and campus-wide initiatives. She has worked with the Organization Mondiale pour l'Education Préscolaire (OMEP), the Scandinavia House, the American Scandinavian Foundation (ASF), the United Nations, and Metro-UN, International Affairs Newspaper. In addition to international affairs, she has edited widely in science, technology, engineering, the arts and humanities, and mathematics.