SPN Board

Nathan Hollier
Chair
Nathan Hollier is Manager of The Australian National University Press and a past CEO and Publisher of Melbourne University Press, Director of Monash University Publishing, Chair of the OL Society, publishers of Overland, Editor of that journal, and was founding Chair of the Small Press Network (2006-2009). He has a PhD in Australian cultural history and writes on society, culture and economics in Australia and its region.

Anna Krien
Board Member

Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games, Into the Woods, and the novel Act of Grace, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye. Anna’s writing has been published in Australian Book Review, The Monthly, The Age, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories and The Big Issue. In 2014 she won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, and in 2018 she received a Sidney Myer Fellowship. 
Anna is a renowned commentator on the politics of publishing within the digital environment and advocate for reading.

Julia Carlomagno
Deputy Chair
Julia Carlomagno is Director and Publisher of Monash University Publishing and a past Associate Publisher and Managing Editor with Black Inc. and Senior Editor with Scribe Publications. She is a former Lecturer in publishing at RMIT University and is a graduate of both the University of Melbourne (Master of Arts in Publishing and Communications) and Yale University (Leadership Strategies in Book Publishing).

Julienne Van Loon
Board Member

Julienne van Loon is an author of acclaimed novels and works of non-fiction, including The Thinking Woman (2019), highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Julienne teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, she was Vice Chancellor’s Senior/Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University (2015-2019) and the co-director of RMIT’s internationally-renowned non/fictionLab research group (2020-2022). From 1999-2015, she led the creative writing program at Curtin University.
In addition, Julienne is an Honorary Fellow in Writing with the University of Iowa, Managing Editor at the scholarly journal ‘TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses’, and Series Editor for Bloomsbury Academic’s ‘Research in Creative Writing’ series.
Julienne’s application of International Integrated Reporting within her research on the impact of books in culture has been widely recognised as an innovative and fruitful contribution to local book industry advocacy.

Emmett Stinson
Treasurer and Secretary
Emmett Stinson is a Lecturer and the author of Satirizing Modernism and the short story collection, Known Unknowns. He is a co-founder and former president of the Small Press Network and served on the federal Book Industry Strategy Group. He is also a co-author (with Richard Pennell and Pam Pryde) of Banning Islamic Books in Australia. He won the Melbourne Age Short Story Award and was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Literary Awards. His essays and fiction have appeared in Overland, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Melbourne Age, The Monthly, Meanjin, and many others.

Eli McLean
Deputy Secretary

Eli McLean is an arts manager, editor and writer with broad sector experience and a deep knowledge of Australian literary culture. He is currently General Manager/CEO of Express Media. Prior to joining Express he was Deputy Editor of Meanjin, and has also worked as Digital Editor for Australian Book Review and Sales, Marketing and Rights Coordinator at Melbourne University Publishing.