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Amy
Amy is a 'hood-blogger and a whiskey enthusiast. She's Booksmith's resident twitterer (tweeter?) and party-thrower. Her New Year's Resolution is to grow her hair out. She cries a lot, but it's usually not your fault. She is only listed first because her name starts with A.
Camden
Camden
reads an awful lot. He is fond of extremity. Lately he is interested in
how things are different, also how they are the same. If you have some time
he'd love to talk to you about that.
Carolyn
is a poet and artist living in San Francisco, and is pursuing her MFA in
poetry at SFSU. She is a Kundiman fellow, recipient of the William Dickey
Fellowship, the San Francisco Foundation's Phelan Award, the Anne Fields Poetry
Award and the Kathryn A. Manoogian Scholarship. She folds cranes obsessively as
a performative act with no desire to develop the art further. The crane as a
symbol is irrelevant and arbitrary. She believes the over 10,000 cranes she’s
made over a three-year period is merely a byproduct of coping with, among other
concerns, the disenchantment of earning a fine arts graduate degree during a
recession.
Christopher

Christopher is an author and award-winning journalist whose
writing has appeared in Harper's, The Economist, The Nation, The Los Angeles
Times and elsewhere. His book Diet
for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis, now in
paperback, examines the human and ecological impacts of increasing corporate
control over our diets. Chris is a longtime member of the SF Writers' Grotto,
and a contributing writer for The
Progressive magazine. You can see more of his work at www.christopherdcook.com
Colin
Colin both reads and writes books. He Tumbls too, from
time to time. This is his favorite person, but he likes most people quite a bit. He's
new to San Francisco,
but it has always been his home.
Cynthia
Cynthia is the honey badger of the Booksmith, which means
you better treat her well or she'll attack ... She looks harmless enough, but
watch out. Cynthia wants to know what you're reading. She doesn't give a $#*+ if you buy physical books or Google e-books. She only wants you to buy them from The Booksmith.
Eden Eden hails from the rural South and loves tea, climbing (on everything),
astronomy, yoga, video games, puns, warm weather, painting, and
lingerie (ooh la la!). Her dislikes include smudges on her glasses, cold
weather, rude people, mushrooms, coffee, and reality television. She is
very clumsy and wastes way too much time on the internet. Often heard
talking in memes and making sound effects, Eden can be found hiding away
in the science fiction section of The Booksmith.
Greer
Greer thinks that tea is the answer to most things, except when the answer is a
smoothie. She detests coffee, but is usually able to forgive people who drink
it, as long as they don't make her smell it too strongly. Then she gets grumpy.
When Greer is not reading, she is maybe writing. (Her first stories, written
when she was six, were Angelina Ballerina fanfiction. She is happy to report
she has since moved on to different subject matter.) One of her coworkers says
she has a broken internal thermostat, which is a fancy way of saying she is
probably currently too hot.
Kelly Kelly is writer, student, tutor, and is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: SFSU Review. She also really likes to try on other roles such as: event host at The Booksmith, beach bum, crazy cat lady, girl who always drops something when she's trying to get on the bus, underdog advocate, giggler, and bartender. Kiara
A good day is spent on the
couch with a book and a cup of tea.
Usually, though, something happens or needs to be done.
www.kiarabrinkman.com
Lauren G.
 Reader, writer, ballerina, letter-writer. Singer, swinger, paper and art
book buyer. Lover of London and Paris, New York
and her bed, she's done the time and has got the street cred.
Lauren O.
Lauren has been an avid
reader of children's books since the age of 4. She has Big Plans to whip the
Booksmith's children's department into shape. When she's not searching for the
perfect book for eager readers of all ages, Lauren can be found reading (on the
BART, in line at the grocery store, or at home on the sunny side of the Bay),
baking, and art-making. Ask her anything, we promise she won't bite.
Megan
Megan Kurashige is a dancer
and a writer. She dances for Liss Fain Dance and burns : work in San Francisco. Her fiction
and poetry has appeared, or will appear, in Sybil's Garage, Strange
Horizons, and Electric Velocipede. She likes to rock socks and shake
souls. She is also an inveterate reader, and when she is not dancing or
writing, she is most likely curled up somewhere, turning pages and traveling to
other worlds.
Melissa
Has been a
bookseller since forever, is always looking for a story she
hasn’t heard before, is doubtful there are ever enough books, produces Berkeley
Arts & Letters, and books and manages Booksmith’s author events, in between
books. Email events@booksmith.com
Rachel 
Rachel grew up literally and figuratively in San Francisco. She spent a long time away before she wised up and came back to "the city." When you don't know where to eat, what is happening in pop culture or want a book suggestion in a variety of genre's she is your gal. She is also called "411." Sadie
Sadie has too much on her plate 100% of the time and likes
it that way. She digs on non-fiction, cookbooks, dystopian fiction,
stories set in the south, and attending pool parties. She also has a soft
spot for children's books, and will gladly reminisce or recommend some.
When she is not working she hopes to be cooking, listening to soul music,
hanging with her pup, reading, learning something really cool, and/or saving
the world.
Sean
Sean is a rugged outdoors-man by nature, but as a keen observer of the human condition, he enjoys working in a bookstore for the added perspective. When no one is looking, he draws funny pictures. www.seanchiki.com
Todd 
Telecommuting guru of store reorders and special projects.
Lover of literary fiction, sociological reportage, music journalism, and nature
writing. A fool for a good cookbook, always ready for a new challenge in the
kitchen. An unrepentant music junkie, known to lose himself in record shops for
hours on end. A runner, an amateur photographer, a tireless traveler, and--
most importantly-- the proud Daddy of the sweetest, most charming dog in the
entire world.
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