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Tuleburg Press is staffed by a group of creatives who have experience in visual and performing arts, literature and art. Our combined experience makes us uniquely fit to help you build your work into a memorable addition to the book world.
We will work through the publishing process with you step by step. Every part of the process will be supervised by members of our talented team.
Board of Directors
Paula Sheil
President
Paula Sheil teaches English composition and Shakespeare at San Joaquin Delta College. She advised the Writers’ Guild from 2006-2014 and founded and published Artifact, a lit/art magazine for students, staff and faculty. Before joining the faculty at Delta, she wrote feature stories for The Record for 10 years. Her story “A Killing on Dagget Road,” won second place in California in 2003 for “General Writing” from the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA).
Sheli Ayers
Vice President
Sheli Ayers grew up in Stockton and graduated from Stagg High School. She then studied English Literature as a Regent’s Scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she received her B.A. in 1990. During her graduate studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she focused on modernism, postmodernism and cultural studies and taught composition and literature courses for five years as a teaching assistant and teaching fellow.
Julie Jose
Secretary
Julie Jose is a bilingual poet, and writer from Stockton, CA. Written in both Spanish and English, Jose’s poetry and stories are inspired by her lived experiences. She is a professor of the Department of English at San Joaquin Delta College.
Aimee St. Georges
Treasurer
Amy St. Georges has owned The Leatherworks for 40 years. The Leatherworks is a small local manufacturing and retail business which is based in Stockton and was run and operated by her late husband Philip Thacher for the first 25 years.
Alicia Arong
Board Member
Alicia Arong was born and raised in Stockton, California with her two brothers and two sisters. She was named after her mother Alicia Chavez, an independent business woman, who owned and ran a 60 room hotel on El Dorado Street in Stockton. Her mother was socially and politically active in the community and instilled the value of civic duty in her children.
Tama Brisbane
Board Member
Tama Brisbane is Stockton’s Poet Laureate Emerita, and the Executive Director of With Our Words, Inc. She served four historic terms from 2015-2023, presenting well over 300 times, including the inauguration of the city’s first Black Mayor, Michael Tubbs. Her 2017 performance as Guest Poet at The King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church led Martin Luther King III to say to her, “your words matter.”
Manuel Camacho
Board Member
Manuel Camacho is a short story writer, poet, playwright, storyteller, and professor of Spanish for Spanish Speakers at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. His stories and poems are published in the monthly magazine Joaquin. In 2020 he published his first bilingual collection of short stories ¿Tienes Papeles?/Got Papers? His newest book is
Joel Reyna Jr.
Board Member
Joel Reyna Jr. is a Stockton native and champion for the arts. He holds a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication from University of California Davis and studied Social Work at California State University Sacramento. Joel is former member of the Stockton Arts Commission where he chaired the committee that helped bring forth the Stockton Poet Laureate Program in 2015.