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Kristen Vida Alfaro
Kristen Vida Alfaro is the Publisher and Executive Director of Tilted Axis Press. She is also a writer and has previously led labour organising at the Barbican. In a former life, Kristen pursued (and left) a doctorate in Cinema Studies at New York University. She is based in London and has appeared in The New York Times, The Observer, TANK, and Vogue Japan for her work with Tilted Axis.
See tiltedaxispress.com/
Jess Chandler
Jess Chandler is the Founder and Publisher of Prototype. She was a Co-Founder of Test Centre, which ran from 2011 to 2018, and co-runs the imprint House Sparrow Press. She has worked as an editor at Reaktion Books, was the Digital Editor of Poetry London for six years,
and used to work as a researcher and producer on factual television programmes. She was a 2024 Bookseller Rising Star.
See prototypepublishing.co.uk/
Samuel Fisher
Samuel Fisher is a writer, bookseller and publisher. He runs Burley Fisher Books, The Ibraaz Bookshop, and is a Director of Peninsula Press. His most recent novel, Migraine, was published in 2025 by Corsair.
See burleyfisherbooks.com/ /
ibraaz.org/ /
peninsulapress.co.uk/
Dominic Jaeckle
Dominic Jaeckle is a publisher, author, and Founder of Tenement Press—a house for homeless ideas—an indepedent publishing project for experimental and angular literatures in English and first-time English language translation.
See tenementpress.com/
Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson is Co-Publisher and Editor at Cipher Press, an independent publishing
house amplifying the work of queer and trans authors. They were a 2021 Bookseller Rising
Star, have appeared in The Observer for their work at Cipher, and have spoken about small
press publishing at literary festivals. They have a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and work with other independent presses at their day job in book distribution.
See www.cipherpress.co.uk/
