Staff and Board

Kate Gale
Publisher & Executive Director
kate@redhen.org
Ext.100

Kate Gale, Publisher and Director, serves as Red Hen Press’s executive director.  She manages Red Hen’s editorial vision, foreign rights and donor cultivation. 

Kate works with the board and staff to set the vision for the organization, find the steps to get there and align the team with that vision while keeping everyone motivated.  It is a joy and a deep privilege to work with everyone on the Red Hen team. 

Mark E. Cull
Artistic Director & Associate Publisher
mark@redhen.org
Ext. 200

Mark E. Cull is co-founder and Publisher of Red Hen Press for 30 years. He currently serves as Artistic Director and Contracts Officer, overseeing all aspects of design, production and contracts. 

Mark is involved in operations and is always questioning operational processes and best practices.  It is Red Hen’s wonderful staff, his love of books and the Bunn coffee maker that calls him to work each day.

Tobi Harper Petrie
Deputy & Marketing Director, Associate Editor
tobi@redhen.org
Ext.900

Tobi Harper Petrie is Deputy Director of Red Hen Press, Founder and Editor of Quill, Publisher of The Los Angeles Review, and Instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program for Publishing and Editing. Tobi specialized in queer theory and literature of the environment throughout their academic studies, culminating in the master’s thesis: “‘What is it?’: Examining Narrative Shifts in Twentieth-Century Genderqueer Novels.” As a genderqueer and neurodivergent speaker, event curator, literary warrior, tech wiz, and jello wrestler, Tobi enjoys the diversity of experiences that life has to offer.

As Marketing Director, Tobi serves as Red Hen Press’s main contact with our international distributor, Publishers Group West. As Deputy Director, they lead the staff team, represent the Press at sales conferences and literary festivals, and double as our in-house tech support.

Monica Fernandez
Media Director
monica.fernandez@redhen.org
Ext. 600

Monica Fernandez graduated from the University of California, Irvine cum laude with a BA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing, and from City University London with a MA in Creative Writing and Publishing. She has had several short fiction and creative nonfiction pieces published in The Chaffey Review, Rind Literary Magazine, Scribendi, The Left Coast Review, Creepy Gnome, and Pure Slush Magazine’s Envy anthology. She is Filipina-American and a huge film and theatre enthusiast.

Monica manages the media and publicity for all Red Hen’s books. She arranges our participation in literary events across the country, promotes book news, reviews, and press publicity across our social media networks and contacts, connects authors with media and interview opportunities, liaises with journalists for media coverage, and liaises with Foreign Rights and Film Rights agents for prospective sale of language and film rights. Her dream is to help Red Hen Press become a worldwide household name. Also, a few book-to-screen adaptations would be pretty cool.

Rebeccah Sanhueza
Production Associate
rebeccah.sanhueza@redhen.org
Ext. 400

Rebeccah Sanhueza began as an Editorial Intern with RHP in March 2018 before moving to the positions of Editorial Assistant and Development Assistant in April and August of 2018, respectively. In July of 2021, Rebeccah was promoted to the position of Production Editor in charge of the editorial department, and in September 2021 was promoted to Production Associate, overseeing the production department as a whole, which includes editorial and design. A 2015 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a BA in English, she has worked for several years as a college English tutor, elementary school literacy coach, and freelance editor. In December 2019, she joined the Los Angeles Review as Production Editor. Her poetry and short fiction has also been published in Inscape magazine. ​

Rebeccah oversees the production, editorial, and design departments, supervising both staff and intern teams while collaborating with authors and marketing/media staff in regard to timelines and promotional materials.

Amanda De Vries
Bookkeeper
amanda.devries@redhen.org
Ext. 800

Amanda De Vries began as a Bookkeeping intern in the Accounting department at Red Hen Press in December 2018 before moving to the position of Bookkeeper in January of 2019. She received an Associates of Arts in Liberal Arts in 2006 and an Associates of Science in Accounting in 2018, both from College of the Desert in Palm Desert.

Amanda monitors and reconciles Red Hen’s finances, maintains inventory upkeep, and tracks royalties statements.

Samantha Desirae Diaz
Marketing & Media Coordinator
samantha.diaz@redhen.org
Ext. 606

Samantha Desirae Diaz is the Marketing and Media Coordinator of Red Hen Press. She earned her BA in Screenwriting and a minor in History from California State University, Northridge and her MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University. Sam began as a Marketing and Media intern before transitioning into her current position.

As the Media and Marketing Coordinator, Sam works closely with the Deputy & Marketing Director and Media Director to ensure Red Hen titles are distributed to marketing and sales channels, promotes titles to various social media platforms and contacts, and produces Red Hen Press’s newest literary podcast, Red Hen Radio. As a literary citizen, Sam contributes to her literary blog, shares bookish posts on social media, and writes with friends at coffee shops.

Piper Gourley
Associate Editor & Events Coordinator
piper.gourley@redhen.org
Ext. 909

Piper Gourley serves as Red Hen’s Administrative and Events Coordinator. They received an MFA and Fellowship in Creative Writing from Chapman University and a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where they won the Bryan Lawrence Prize for Nonfiction and the Provost Prize for Creative Writing. Having served as a ghostwriter, a short-form editor, and a core member of multiple journals, they have spent over a decade working in the literary sphere. Their writing appears in Joyland, Passages North, The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, and elsewhere.

At the press, Piper collaborates with Media, Marketing, and Development to support the curation of events, rentals of the Hen House, coordination of the annual Benefit, and behind-the-scenes administrative goals. They also support Editorial in the developmental editing of select prose titles. They live in Los Angeles with a cat named Poe, who likes to eat books.

Mary Finnegan
Development Coordinator
mary.finnegan@redhen.org
Ext. 700

Mary Finnegan is the Development and Writing In The Schools Coordinator at Red Hen Press. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in theater at Lewis and Clark College. Mary began as a fundraising intern through the LACAC internship program before being hired into her current position. Mary supervises the grant writing program at Red Hen Press and coordinates with the Press’s development interns. She also manages the Writing in the Schools program, coordinating with schools, teachers, and poetry instructors.

Brooke Erdmann
Development Associate
brooke.erdmann@redhen.org
Ext. 500

Brooke Erdmann is the Development Associate and works to ensure the financial sustainability and growth of the organization. Her primary responsibility is to design and implement strategies to raise funds through diverse revenue streams. Prior to Red Hen, Brooke managed the Prospect Research arm at the Los Angeles Opera. For many years, she also worked for the nonpartisan democracy advocacy organization Common Cause where, among her many hats, she was a Major Gifts Officer and Manager of Prospect Research. 

Brooke graduated from Occidental College with a degree in English and Comparative Literary Studies. She lives in her favorite city in the world, Los Angeles, with her husband, James, and cat, Henry. 

Ava Morgan
Rights Coordinator
ava.morgan@redhen.org
Ext. 404

Coming soon!

Phone Number:
(626) 356-4760 ext. ___
Fax: (626) 356-9974

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 40820
Pasadena, CA 91114

Physical Address:
1540 Lincoln Ave
Pasadena, CA 91103