National Book Foundation Names New Leader
Ruth Dickey, the executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures, is succeeding Lisa Lucas, who left the organization to become the publisher of Pantheon and Schocken.
“As a queer kid growing up in a small town, books brought me the world,” Ruth Dickey said.Credit...via Ruth E. Dickey
Feb. 11, 2021
The National Book Foundation said on Thursday that Ruth Dickey, the executive director of the literary nonprofit Seattle Arts & Lectures, will become the organization’s new executive director.
An award-winning poet and essayist, Dickey served as a fiction judge for the National Book Awards in 2019. For the past 25 years, she has worked at arts organizations and nonprofits across the United States, a background that she could draw on to help the foundation expand.