Sweet Hellos

Two new Seattle Edible Book Festival organizers are helping Janet plan the festivities this year.

My name is Kate Lebo and yes, in this picture I'm eating a pickled egg. As you can probably surmise, it is not as delicious as an edible book. I am an incorrigible pie-maker and home cook and lover of zines and handmade books. The Edible Books Festival is a perfect pairing of books and food, the things I love most. I write a blog about local food called Good Egg and I write poetry, mostly on my lunch breaks. I'm also a board member for the Seattle Center for Book Arts and I work at Hugo House, Seattle's literary arts center. You can e-mail me at kate.lebo at gmail dot com.

This is my cohort Kelly Hilst:
Kelly first got involved with the Seattle Edible Books Festival in 2006 as a delighted reveler. The combination of books, visual puns, sugar, and more blue Jell-O than she'd ever seen in one location (in a particularly creative interpretation of the Dr. Seuss classic One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish) totally won her heart. Now she's hooked--she volunteered the following year, and she's happy to return to help organize the event in 2009.

She spends her days in the Membership office at KEXP, a nonprofit radio station, and her nights at home on Capitol Hill with her husband and fourteen tropical fish. If you're interested in volunteering at the 2009 Edible Books Festival, Kelly is your gal—just send her an email at frybooks at gmail dot com and she'll add you to our volunteer list!

And then, of course, there's Janet Fryberger:
Producer of The Seattle Edible Book Festival, creator of such crowd favorites as Alice in Wonderbread and Are You Bare Bun? It's me, Margarine! and Their Ryes were Noshing Gouda, lover of all things Book (pic above = inking a plate on a Gutenberg Press replica), punk shui interior designer, former bookstore owner, board member of Seattle Center for Book Arts, artists' books collector ... and ... right now ... job seeker...