OUR TEAM
Meet our team of passionate booksellers! These avid readers are always eager to talk to you about their favourite stories and help you find the one that’s right for you.
Hilary atleo (she/her) (Anishinaabe/Settler)
OWNER + Store manager
Hilary drives a big truck full of books and loves genre fiction. She spends her spare time knitting, hiking, and trying to reduce the size of her TBR pile.
cliff atleo (he/him) (Nuu Chah Nulth/Tsimsian)
OWNER
Kitselas/Ahousaht father, husband, book peddler, academic, reader.
TALIA (SHE/HER)
INVENTORY SPECIALIST & BOOK BUYER
Talia is a forever bookseller who has yet to finesse the art of reading while walking. Her penchant for the alphabetical is purely professional (the home shelves are an unsystematized mess). Visit her for all your Low Plot/High Atmosphere and Little Book/Big Ideas needs— no clowns please ; )
erin (she/her) Bookseller
Erin likes to have at least one novel, poetry collection, and non-fiction title going at the same time. Her greatest accomplishment to date is that one time she painted her nails without getting polish all over her fingers.
SARA (SHE/HER)
bookseller
Sara is a forever student of all things books. She likes wearing fun shirts and owns a polymer clay small business. Her secret-not-so-secret obsession is reading smut but she also loves reading Queer books (especially sapphic ones), graphic novels, and horror (despite being afraid of her own shadow).
df (they/them)
inventory manager
df’s TBR pile stretches back three decades (they still haven’t gotten round to Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down). They believe Bulgakov > Tolstoy and that plot is overrated. They’re happiest talking poetry, hybrid fiction, and queer westerns.
KARA (SHE/HER)
BOOKSELLER
Kara is an artist with a TBR pile that will endure for as long as she does. It contains horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and literary fiction. In her spare time she does embroidery and plays farming sims.
kaitlin (she/her)
bookseller
Kaitlin's love for YA stories will never run out. She especially loves queer centered YA and romcoms, and she occasionally throws herself into sci-fi/fantasy and stories about feral women. When she's not reading, she enjoys cuddling with her cats and watching hockey.