Christine Holbert – Designer

Christine Holbert, founding director of Lost Horse Press and a founder of Spokane’s Get Lit! Literary Arts Festival, earned her MA in Publishing from Eastern Washington University. In 1998, she established Lost Horse Press where she reviews and edits manuscripts, designs book covers and text pages, typesets, designs catalogs, promotes Lost Horse books, manages marketing activities, oversees interns and volunteers, and negotiates with distributors, bookstores, printers, authors, and other publishers. She has guided to completion such outstanding titles as Love by Valerie Martin, Post & Rail by Erica Funkhouser, Thistle by Melissa Kwasny, Detroit As Barn by Crystal Williams, Just Waking by Christopher Howell, The Baseball Field at Night by Patricia Goedicke, Wonderland by Sam Ligon, The Loves & Wars of Relative Scale by Albert Goldbarth, Raising Lilly Ledbetter edited by Carolyne Wright, Nasty Women Poets edited by Julie Kane and Grace Bauer, among others. In the 20 years since she established the Press, Holbert has published over 125 books of poetry and fiction, many of which have won national awards.

In addition to running the Press, Holbert is dedicated to contributing to the community. She serves on the board of the Idaho Center for the Book; founded the Idaho Prize for Poetry, an annual book contest; organizes creative writing workshops, literary readings, and a writing conference for adults—all to promote the literary arts in Idaho as well as nationally.