Krista Lyons-Gould is the VP of Editorial for Avalon PublishingÂ
Group and works in APG’s California division, in Emeryville,Â
overseeing editorial and production for the travel referenceÂ
imprint, Avalon Travel Publishing, and for the trade imprint,Â
Seal Press. Most of her time is focused on Seal Press, which isÂ
dedicated to publishing important books by and for women for theÂ
last 25 years, from “Getting Free,” the first book to announceÂ
domestic violence as an issue, and women’s travel anthologies,Â
such as “France, A Love Story: Women Write About the FrenchÂ
Experience,” edited by Camille Cusumano, to “The F-Word: FeminismÂ
in Jeopardy” by Kristin Rowe-FinkbeinerÂ
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According to KLG, Seal Press is publishing books that reflect theÂ
issues women and girls are really dealing with and talk aboutÂ
those issues honestly and with an edge, whether that edge isÂ
humor or a finger pointed at the sociological or politicalÂ
environments that create and foster the issues.Â
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For the last few years, Seal has focused on issues central toÂ
third-wave feminists. Now, they are going back to Seal’s originalÂ
core reader. She is a boomer, a second-waver perhaps. She isÂ
interested in other topics, like aging, caretaking parents,Â
parenting teenagers, politics and how they impact her, and sex.Â
Seal Press is also publishing for teenage girls and young womenÂ
with a reissue of a completely revised Real Girl, Real World (OurÂ
Bodies Ourselves for teens. New titles to watch for: The TruthÂ
Behind the Mommy Wars, Invisible Girls, Job Hopper by AyunÂ
Halliday, Above Us Only Sky by Marion Winik; I Wanna Be Sedated,Â
writers on parenting teenagers.Â
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Prior to working at Avalon, Lyons-Gould worked for theÂ
independent publishing house John Muir Publications in Santa Fe,Â
NM, as an editor and editorial manager, and moved west toÂ
California when Avalon acquired JMP in 2000. Originally fromÂ
California, and a graduate of UC Santa Barbara (B.A.) and HumboltÂ
State University (M.A.), Lyons-Gould is thankful to have foundÂ
the work she loves making books in the Bay Area. She lives inÂ
Berkeley, CA, with her husband and two sons, ages 8 and 10.Â