About

Leslie Davisson is our Sales Director. She's been bringing books to the people for over 20 years, including roles at Chronicle Books and Lonely Planet. When not sitting at a computer, she can be found baking bread, roaming the woods, reading horror, and listening to live music. Just not at the same time.

Contact Leslie about big ideas for getting our books out into the world!

503 333 4722

Kristine Anstine is our major account sales manager. Connecting people and stores with books is her lifelong passion that she pursued for the previous 25 years at Last Gasp and before that at Comic Relief. She also enjoys saddle-stapling zines, modifying signs, and traveling with her family.

Contact Kristine about books for your store!

971-277-9435

Sara Balabanlilar works in the sales department. She also works on marketing at WorkingLit, reads a bunch, and dotes on her cats.

Contact Sara for help lovingly curating your shelf.

Danielle Beliveau is our Executive Assistant, streamlining our systems so that we can get you better books faster!

Jeff Hayes is a co-owner who handles inventory, customer service, and outgoing order logistics.

Contact Jeff if you have questions, issues, or kudos about an order you placed with us.

Squishy Christiansen is on our operations team, overseeing Kickstarter reward fulfillment and making sure that our orders get out the door painlessly.

Contact Squishy when you have questions about your Kickstarter rewards or BFF subscription

Sarah Koch is a co-owner and Operations Manager who oversees outgoing and incoming payments, our receiving team in Portland, editorial tasks, and new title purchasing. You will find her cursing a box full of damaged books while listening to the Cure and watching the X-Files. She is not related to the brothers that you are thinking of.

Contact Sarah if you want to pay an invoice.

Elizabeth Neal is our Portland shipping manager, creating an environment of kindness and excellence for all.

Abby Roseberry is our marketing supervisor, who creates discoverability and marketing data for the multitude of books that show up daily on our doorsteps.

Contact Abby to talk about D&D campaigns and discuss new ways that people find new books!

Tomy Huynh is a co-owner and our marketing and eBook manager. He handles our title data and propagates it into the world via an ONIX feed, as well as eBook production.

Contact Tomy if you find incorrect data about our published books, or if there is a formatting issue with one of our ebooks.

Daley Farr handles our publicity and rocks the marketing department.

Contact Daley about review copies and Microcosm news.

Marissa Santillan-Guzman is on our marketing team, helping make sure all the books in our catalog are ready to be matched with the perfect reader.

Ericka Smith is our editorial supervisor. She keeps our editorial schedule on track and helps the books, decks, and zines we publish become their best possible selves before they meet their readers.

Ivy Zeller is an editor who works hard to make sure each of our books does what it says it will and has maximum life-changing potential.

Terry Sullivan is our Portland fulfillment superstar who keeps everything running like clockwork, but in a friendly way.

Lance Rossi (he/they) in Portland puts your books in your box with lightning accuracy and precision.

Scottie Bradford ships your books out of our Portland headquarters with style, flair, and love.

Paul Havens is a Cleveland shipping associate who gets your books pulled, packed well, and out the door on time, thinking up new puns all the way.

Chris Humphrey is a Cleveland logistics mastermind who makes sure all our books are cared-for, fed, and finding their homes comfortably so they can end up loved when someone is ready for them.

Emily Dussing is part of our fulfillment and receiving team in Cleveland, moving books from dock to shelf to mailstream and keeping all our zines beautifully organized.

Dave Geiser manages our Cleveland shipping office, keeping the books flowing out the door with friendly gusto.

Carmen Sherry ships your books out of Cleveland, making sure you get just the ones you want, picked and packed with precision and care.

Nathan Lee Thomas is a warehouse and production assistant. He is the digger of metaphorical trenches around the office to make the stuff that appears in your mailbox that much brighter.

Contact Nathan about deep thoughts and philosophical analyses of Batman villains.

Elly Blue is the Vice President, associate publisher, and a co-owner. She publishes a list of feminist bicycling books, oversees Microcosm's editorial, marketing, customer service, and human resources departments, and manages our software development team.

Contact Elly about event ideas, typos in our books, website glitches, bureaucratic needs, and with questions about our WorkingLit software.

Joe Biel is the CEO, founder, co-owner, operations director, acquisitions editor, publisher relations manager, and creative director.

Contact Joe to propose a publishing project, compare net present value, discuss spreadsheets, or ask printing questions.

Rubine Red (2006–2020) was our community manager. Constantly forging new relationships with the outside world, she tirelessly met new people, demanded snacks, and excitedly shared our message of self-empowerment!