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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.
Ruth Dickey Takes Over at the National Book Foundation By John Maher | Feb 11, 2021
The National Book Foundation has named Ruth Dickey, who currently heads Seattle Arts & Lectures, its next executive director. She will start on May 17, with the foundation s deputy director, Jordan Smith, continuing on as interim basis until then.
Dickey has been executive director at Seattle Arts & Lectures since 2013 and, before that, served as executive director at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center in Cincinnati, New Futures in Burien, Wash., and Miriam’s Kitchen in Washington, D.C. She was also a judge for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019, and has a background in poetry; her first book,
Ruth Dickey, the executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures, is to take up her new post with the National Book Foundation on May 17.
An excerpt from a listing of upcoming event at Seattle Arts & Lectures, which Ruth Dickey has led since July 2013. Image: Seattle Arts & Lectures
Dickey: A ‘Critical Role in Our Cultural Landscape’
The National Book Foundation today (February 11) has announced that Ruth Dickey will serve as the program’s new executive director, following the departure of Lisa Lucas to become senior vice president and publisher of Knopf’s Pantheon and Schocken imprints. The foundation, of course, is the nonprofit producer of the National Book Awards.