Lisa Quinn has been appointed executive director of the McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her five-year term will begin July 1, 2023.

Quinn comes to McGill-Queen’s University Press after serving as director of the Wilfrid Laurier University Press (WLUP) since 2016. Prior to that, she was associate director and acquisitions editor at WLUP, where she began her career in publishing in 2006.

During her tenure, Ms. Quinn built award-winning lists in a range of disciplines, notably in Indigenous studies, life writing, literature, cultural criticism, feminist scholarship, environmental humanities, social work, and social policy. Under her direction, WLUP established a leading presence in digital publishing, developing programs in alternative formats of publication, accessible production, and research in scholarly communication.

Quinn is an active leader and advocate within the academic and trade publishing communities in Canada and internationally. She is currently President of the Ontario Book Publishers Association and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP) and Livres Canada Books. Quinn has previously served as President of the Association of Canadian University Presses from 2016 to 2019.

Quinn holds a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Western University and has served on Library Relations committees for both the Association of University Presses and the ACP.