Elizabeth Jordan is the CEO of BookPeople, the largest independent bookstore in Texas. She has worked at BookPeople for the past seventeen years starting as a bookseller and then moving into a variety of leadership roles, including a ten-year stint as the Adult Book Buyer and Inventory Operations Supervisor. She has served on the Bookseller Advisory Committee for the American Booksellers Association and the Board of Directors of the Independent Booksellers Consortium. She was named a finalist for the 2018 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Award.