Katie Mitchell has joined Bookshop.org as manager of bookstore partnerships. She has more than a decade of experience in technology and the literary world and is the author of Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores (Clarkson Potter). She received the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's 2026 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Award and is a 2026 Georgia Author of the Year nominee.
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Courtney Payne has joined Microcosm's sales team as a senior sales specialist. She has more than 20 years of publishing and bookselling experience, including at Sasquatch Books, Chronicle Books, and most recently Sourcebooks.