biOs SPEAKERS


Davida Breier Manager, Hopkins Fulfillment Services Johns Hopkins University Press http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu


Davida Breier is the Manager for Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS), the distribution division at Johns Hopkins University Press. She’s worked for National Book Network (NBN), where she was the Marketing Director and oversaw NBN Fusion, a digital publishing and distribution initiative. Prior to that, she was the Sales and Marketing Director for Biblio Distribution,


managing over 500 independent presses. She is also a board member for the non- profit publisher, No Voice Unheard and is a contributing writer and photogra- pher for their new book Meeting America’s Farmed Animals in Stories and Photo- graphs.


Cevin Bryerman Publisher, Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com


Cevin Bryerman is Associate Publisher of Publishers Weekly, the leading international trade magazine for book publishing. He is a member of the advisory board for Netgalley, Books for a Better Life, Center for Small Independent Presses, and Green Press Initiative. He has been a guest speaker at Northwestern University and Columbia University on book and magazine


publishing. Cevin is treasurer of IBPA and has served as a board member for the past two and half years.


Elise Cannon V.P. Sales-Field, PGW/Perseus www.pgw.com


Elise Cannon is vice president, director of field sales at Publish- ers Group West, the most successful exclusive distributor of independent publishers in North America. She has worked at PGW for 16 years, representing over 125 exceptional presses, in- cluding best-selling publishers Grove/Atlantic Monthly, New World Library, Counterpoint, Soft Skull Press, McSweeney’s,


MacAdam/Cage, Shelter Publications, Ulysses Press and Gallup Press. She also oversees independent bookstore sales for the Perseus Books Group. A former PMA/IBPA board member, she believes that up-to-date marketplace knowledge is one of the cornerstones of success for independent publishers.


Steve Carlson Publisher, Upper Access, Inc. www.upperaccess.com


Steve Carlson co-founded Upper Access in 1986, and has served as publisher ever since. He has achieved success by keeping his company small enough to allow his own involvement in all as- pects of publishing, focusing on maximizing sales of a short list of titles. His books fall into a broad niche, nonfiction to improve the quality of life. Steve also publishes business soft-


ware for the publishing industry, including the freeware Publishers’ Assistant, and Couplet, for managing titles and contacts. He is a former board member of IBPA, and current president of Independent Publishers of New England. Prior to becoming a publisher, Steve has worked as a journalist, a congressional assistant, and a magazine editor.


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