Our Technical Muse

Meet Denna Hintze-Yates, our webdesigner and graphic artist. She is a contract employee of Pacific Crest and owns her own company, The Technical Muse. Denna explains the name: "I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of the Greek Muses -- there was a muse for history, a muse for poetry and so on. But in the modern world, we need at least one more muse -- a muse that is available not only to inspire but to get her hands dirty when you have to do something like debug code or transfer files between operating systems." And thus The Technical Muse was created.

Denna has an eclectic educational background - a BA in Linguistics and an MA in the Philosophy of Science. She explains, "I started college as an engineering physics major and never gave that up but fell in love with linguistics and Latin." As Denna likes to joke, "I was once voted ‘the person you’d least want to be stuck in an elevator with’ by a group of my students."

She has continued to widen the scope of her passions, having added graphic design and technical editing to her array of skills. You can see her talents shine in our newsletter and on our updated website. She is also one of our primary publication editors, and enjoys working with authors to guide their books from manuscript format through to final publication.