Leadership Team
Cherilyn Parsons
Founder and Executive Director
Samee Roberts
Managing Director
Dora La Flora Czifra
Program Systems and Web Manager
Julia & Jared Drake
Wildbound PR
Publicist
Scott Gelfand
Chief Operations Officer
Lisa Heyse
International Program Director
Norah Piehl
Director for Literary Programs
Steven Tiffin
Outdoor Fair Producer
Festival Team
Aspire Visual
Graphic Designer
Jason Beresini
Independent Bookseller Coordinator
Julie Coryell, Wildbound PR
Publicity Associate
Matthew Felix
Author Green Room Coordinator
Batya Gelfand
Volunteer Coordinator
Michael Hitchner
Photography Manager
Haley Kleine
Ticketing & Salesforce Assistant
Lou Ann Koehler
Author Travel Coordinator
Madeleine Letellier, Wildbound PR
Social Media Coordinator
WebCherry
Web Designer
UC Berkeley Interns
Ryan Bada, Michelle Chen, Erika Layton, Anna Ma, Annie Sheinberg, Anastasia Yang, Yuetong Zhang
Program Advisers
Jane Ciabattari
Board member and former President, National Book Critics Circle
Michael Holtmann
Center for the Art of Translation
Laurie R. King
Author
Janis Cooke Newman
Author; Founder and Director of Lit Camp, Highbeam Editorial, and Page Street writers co-working space
Karen Phillips
Executive Director, Words Without Borders
Lise Quintana
Publisher, Zoetic Press
Renée Richard
CEO & Executive Director Cinnamongirl, Inc.
Rachel Richardson
Author, Co-director, Left Margin LIT
Brooke Warner
Publisher, SheWrites Press
Board of Directors
The Bay Area Book Festival is the primary project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in California. FFLL’s Tax ID number is 47-3955286. FFLL is governed by a Board of Directors:
Cherilyn Parsons
Founder and Executive Director
Brooke Warner
Interim Chair
Publisher, SheWrites Press
George Rehm
Treasurer
Investor
Lise Quintana
Secretary
Editor, Zoetic Press
Igor Zagatsky
The Urban School