THE STANCHION FAMILY
JEFF BOGLE
Jeff is the founder, editor, and publisher of Stanchion Magazine & Books. He's also is an award-winning photographer, and a freelance writer with bylines in the Washington Post, BBC Travel, AARP Magazine, The Toronto Star, Fodor's, Travel & Leisure, Wine Enthusiast, USA Today, Reader's Digest, Parents Magazine, Esquire, Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, PBS, and Time Out New York, among other publications. In addition to his own two books (guided journals for dads and kids), he has had stories and monologues published in several anthologies. In addition to his writing, Jeff won the 2016 Iris Award for Photography and 2017 Iris Award for Philanthropy. He's a cat lover who saw his unique travel book, Street Cats and Where to Find Them, published in summer 2025 by Running Press, a Hachette Book Group imprint.
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He founded Stanchion in July 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and civil unrest, as a way of shining a bit of hopeful, creative light into the ever-creeping darkness, and to create something tangible and permanent in an ever-digitized and increasingly disposable world.
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In addition to being a working travel writer and photographer, Jeff is a proud dad to a pair of teen daughters, a husband, son, and brother, European football obsessive, music lover, bread baker and amateur home cook, cat dad, home economics star student, and decent human being. Jeff's TBR is ever-growing. He lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
KATIE SCHMELING
Katie Schmeling is the editor for Stanchion Books. She has been editing books of all kinds since college, when she finagled the world’s best student gig: Editorial Assistant at the University of Iowa Press. The Press was in a little two-story stone house on campus and Katie had a small round table at a window in the upstairs office of the managing editor. Some of the happiest hours of her life were spent at that table.
While her life and career took Katie into a very different direction than her publishing dreams, her love of reading and editing persisted, and she has been editing in her limited free time for twenty years.
As Books Editor at Stanchion, Katie feels lucky every.single.time she opens a new manuscript. Her mission is to ensure that every Stanchion author puts their best, truest book into the world.
Katie lives, writes, reads, runs, cooks, reads, works, reads, parents, advocates, votes, reads, and edits in Leesburg, Virginia.