Tonya Namura, book designer

Tonya Namura has spent her entire life in giving physical form to stories. As a kid, she copied out poems from books in the library, falling in love with the shapes of letters and the arrangement of words on the page. She moved on to design the yearbook in high school, and the newspaper and literary magazine in college, discovering how covers and fonts and even paper choice could influence how stories are received. Her professional gigs have included everything from catalogs and mathematical texts to national magazines and nonprofit marketing materials. Most recently, she’s been designing books for MoonPath Press, Concrete Wolf Poetry Series, World Enough Writers, and Empty Bowl Press. To Tonya, every project has a story just waiting for its best possible form.