Meghan Dietsche Goel has been the Children’s Book Buyer & Programming Director for BookPeople in Austin, TX since 2005 and serves as the programming director for the Texas Teen Book Festival, which she helped launch in 2009. She also writes about books and bookselling for Publisher’s Weekly’s “ShelfTalker.” She has served as President of the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association and worked in editorial at HarperCollins Children’s Books.

(Photo credit: Samir Goel)