Kathy Daneman has worked in publishing as a publicist for more than 25 years, specializing  in comprehensive publicity campaigns for books in a multitude of genres. A former publicity director at Penguin Random House, she has worked in-house at Beacon Press, Soho Press, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as Director of Programs and Strategic Communications for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Her freelance clients include Whiting Award winner Tony Tulathimutte, NBCC Award winners Carina Chocano and Melissa Febos, as well as Drawn & Quarterly, Grove/Atlantic, Faber & Faber, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Bloomsbury Academic, Counterpoint, Harper, Anthology Editions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mystery Writers of America, National Geographic and Restless Books. She served on the Brooklyn Book Festival literary council and as a board member of Housing Works Bookstore Café. She is currently chair of the Manchester Arts Commission in Manchester, NH.