Team

Matt started his career as a book marketer in publishing (Avalon, Wiley, FSG). After a Columbia Business School MBA, he joined the Amazon books team, then held several roles in tech, including VP of Growth at seed-stage startup Inkshares, Head of Growth and Engagement at Trulia, and most recently Head of Product, Design, and Research at Patreon.

Meg began her career as Editor at Becker&mayer!, producing high-profile licensed and complex illustrated books for major publishers, before leading global digital initiatives for Adidas. As Chief of Strategy at Girl Friday Productions for nearly ten years, she steered the agency from book packager for traditional imprints to award-studded independent publishing services company.

Zack brings nearly twenty years in full-stack engineering, recently as Lead Software Architect at Cloud9, where he developed membership systems for the US’s most successful e-gaming franchise. He designed the Xbox interface of one of the world’s most profitable multiplayer games, World of Tanks, and is the author of The Last Human (Penguin Random House, 2020) and A Crowded Galaxy (Dark Horse, 2024).

CJ began her career working as a Creative Producer at several renowned brand design agencies, fostering innovation in new markets for Electronic Arts, Xbox, Adidas, and Microsoft. She also served as Senior Producer at Valiant Labs, a Nike-funded startup incubator. She recently opened an independent bookstore in Arizona, which she runs with her family.

Charlotte was a book jacket designer and Art Director at Faber & Faber, Inc. and the paperback line at FSG for fourteen years and is the former Designer and Art Editor of The Paris Review magazine. In 2014, she cofounded Strick & Williams, an award-winning, women-led, Brooklyn-based brand design firm, which helped launch publishers such as Catapult and Spiegel & Grau, among others, as well as an award-winning rebrand of The Paris Review.

Shira began her career in literary agenting and subsequently worked in the startup and audiobook arenas across her 15-year career in publishing. She led print and audio acquisitions at Blackstone Publishing, managed licensing and distribution partnerships for Audible, and was a founding hire at multiple early-stage publishing startups, including Litographs and Radish Fiction. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University and an M.F.A. in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Rosemary is a software engineer with fifteen years of experience at start-ups and design agencies. She's built interfaces and reading experiences for Patreon, The Audubon Society, The Wikimedia Foundation, and more. She's also a prolific zine-maker, film photographer, electronics tinkerer, and singer-songwriter within the San Francisco Bay Area queer art and literature community.

Lauren is a strategy-driven Product Designer, recently leading the charge on 0-1 experiences at Google in Marketing Automation and Meta’s highly experimental, and aptly named, New Product Experimentation team. She began her career as a Swiss-army-knife Creative in streetwear, before pivoting to UX in digital agencies and eventually, heading up product design at Saucey, creating high-converting experiences, helping the start-up reach its first million orders and successful acquisition by its sister company Emjay.