GREAT LAKES INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION
Directory
Board of Directors, Staff & Committee Assignments
Updated February, 2024
Directory
Board of Directors, Staff & Committee Assignments
Updated February, 2024
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February spikener bio
February moved to the Chicagoland area from Boston, MA in 2023. She studied English and Psychology at Wellesley College, and is currently a candidate for her Master's in Fine Arts from Randolph College. After managing a student-led cooperative for several years as well as beginning her professional career as an English teacher, February is now a bookseller at RoscoeBooks, and is eager to continue building a career grounded in her lifelong love of reading. Everything you need to know about February can be summarized by the two books that changed her life: Beloved by Toni Morrison and Soft Science by Franny Choi. |
President
Past Vice President Tim Smith Schuler Books 2660 28th St. SE Grand Rapids, MI 49512 (616) 942-2561 Committees: Executive, Education, Evaluation, Voice of the Heartland, Heartland Steering Committee, HPI President 2022-2024 Vice President 2020-2022 Treasurer 2018-2020 First Term 2018-2020 Second Term 2020-2022 Third Term 2022-2024 |
Vice President
Alyson Turner Source Booksellers 4240 Cass Ave UNIT 105 Detroit, MI 48201 (313) 832-1155 Committees:Executive, Education, Evaluation, Heartland Steering Committee, HPI VICE President 2022-2024 First Term 2020-2022 Second Term 2022-2024 Third Term 2024-2026 |
Secretary
Nina Barrett Bookends & Beginnings 1712 Sherman Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 (224) 999-7722 Committees: Education, Publisher Outreach First Term: 2022-2024 Second Term: 2024-2026 Nina Barrett bio
Nina Barrett is the owner and founder of Bookends & Beginnings bookstore in Evanston, IL. She is also the author of four books, including most recently The Leopold and Loeb Files: An Intimate Look at One of America’s Most Infamous Crimes. Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, the Chicago Tribune, and many other publications. She also trained as a professional chef, and her food reporting for Chicago’s NPR station WBEZ earned her the James Beard Award for Best Radio Show two years running, in 2012 and 2013. |
Treasurer
Zach Matelski McLean & Eakin 307 E Lake St, Petoskey, MI 49770 (231) 347-1180 Committees: Education, Voice of the Heartland First Term: 2023-2025 Second Term: 2025-2027 ZACH MATELSKI BIO
Zach Matelski is the Operations manager at McLean and Eakin Booksellers in Petoskey, Michigan. He started bookselling in 2008 right after highschool. Since then he has graduated with a degree in International Relations, spent two years in Thailand, moved to Portland, Oregon. All before coming back to the bookselling world in 2017. You may have seen him at Heartland Fall forum talking loudly about Dragons. |
Past Treasurer
Melissa D. Weisberg Macmillan Grand Blanc, MI Committees: Executive, Evaluation, HPI, Finance, Education Treasurer 2020-2023 First Term 2019-2021 Second Term 2021-2024 |
Gary Lovely
Two Dollar Radio HQ 1124 Parsons Ave Columbus OH, 43206 (614) 725-1505 Committees: Voice of the Heartland, Publisher Outreach, Education First Term: 2021-2023 Second Term: 2023-2025 gary lovely bio
Gary Lovely is the publisher of Harpoon Books, an indie publishing company based in Columbus, OH, a veteran bookseller with over 10 years experience, and a huge fan of Wendell Berry. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Buzzfeed Books, Literary Hub, and more. Gary is the co-owner of Two Dollar Radio HQ. |
Maxwell Gregory
Madison Street Books 1127 West Madison Street Chicago, IL 60607 (312) 929-4140 Committees: Education First Term: 2023-2025 Second Term: 2025-2027 MAXWELL GREGORY BIO
Maxwell Gregory started her bookselling career at The Lake Forest Book Store, in Lake Forest, Illinois with owner Sue Boucher in 2006 and became the store manager in 2013. She served on the Indies Introduce 2020 Spring/Summer Debut Adult Author Panel. For the past four years she has been a part of both the ABRAMS Dinner Party and the Ten Speed Ambassador Program promoting and reviewing the publisher's cookbooks. In 2021, Maxwell joined A Mighty Blaze as an Author Liaison and Scheduling Producer for author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan's weekly mystery/thriller segment, Crime Time. She currently is affiliated with Madison Street Books in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago as a virtual bookseller and consultant. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago. |
Shay Carroll
Microcosm Publishing Cleveland, OH Committees: Education, Nominating First Term: 2023-2025 Second Term: 2025-2027 SHAY CARROLL BIO
Shay Carroll earned a BFA in creative writing and linguistics, and has been working their way into the world of publishing ever since. After moving to Cleveland right after college, they worked for the Cleveland Public Library before moving into contract and proposal writing. They now work for Microcosm Publishing in their Cleveland location, where they are responsible for both receiving and data for new titles. |
Harriett Logan
Loganberry Books Cleveland, OH Committees: Education First Term: 2024-2026 Second Term: 2026-2028 HARRIETT LOGAN BIO
Harriett Logan founded Loganberry Books in an historic neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio in 1994. What started as a niche used bookstore grew into a large general bookstore featuring over 150,000 new, used and rare books, plus cards, crafts and tchotchkes. The shop is known for its stately and luxurious ambience, which is actually an old auto garage that once sold Nash Motors. Harriett mourns her feline friend Otis, who charmed customers for over a decade. |
Joanna Englert
Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY Committees: Education First Term: 2024-2026 Second Term: 2026-2028 JOANNA ENGLERT BIO
Joanna Englert is the senior marketing and publicity director at Sarabande Books, an independent publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay based in Louisville, KY. Prior to her 7+ years in publishing, Joanna worked as a fundraiser and grant writer for a number of arts and education organizations including Louisville Ballet, and she also taught Rhet/Comp at the University of Louisville. A poet, Joanna is the 2024 recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, and she was a 2023 Artist in Residence at the Kentucky Foundation for Women. |