Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt

Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt is a painter and graphic designer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is senior book designer at Harvard University Press and exhibits her paintings in the Boston area. She has won awards for book design from the New England Book Show and the Association of American University Presses. Frankfeldt holds a B.A. in history, literature, and philosophy from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in modern European intellectual history from the University of Chicago.

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