Betsy (Tawresey) Twitchell was named a vice president of the New York-based publisher W.W. Norton & Company.

Twitchell has worked for Norton for the past nine years, starting in college textbook sales, and worked her way up as a marketer and is now the life sciences college textbook editor.

In a statement announcing her appointment, W.W. Norton stated that she “has tamed scientists across the land as our college department editor in the challenging field of biology.”

Twitchell is a 2000 graduate of Bainbridge High School and a graduate of the University of Washington.