Lucas Wittmann is the Executive Director of The 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center. Previously, he was an Editorial Director at TIME and the literary editor of The Daily Beast and Newsweek. He also worked in book publishing at Regan Arts and W. W. Norton. Mr. Wittmann is the recipient of a National Magazine Award, and has spoken on NPR and at CUNY, Columbia, NYU, and The New School about publishing, literary culture, and books. He attended the Columbia University Publishing Course, Oxford University, and Georgetown University.