Emily Pullen is the Reader Services Coordinator for the New York Public Library. She was on the selection committee for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. For a decade, she worked in independent bookstores: WORD in Brooklyn, Skylight Books in Los Angeles, and Porter Square Books in Massachusetts. She served on the Bookseller Advisory Council for the American Booksellers Association. She grew up in Iowa and lives in Beacon, NY with her wife, cats, and several books.

(Photo credit: Jonathan Blanc, NYPL)