The Philadelphia Rare Book Fair

 Allie Alvis the Curator of Special Collections at the Winterthur Library, and a former rare book cataloguer at Type Punch Matrix. Allie is also a public bibliographic educator (find them as @Book_historia on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube), and a book collector. They have published and lectured widely on a variety of topics including 16th century arsenical bookbindings, the depiction of rare books in pop culture, the importance of well-loved books, and the work of English binders Douglas Cockerell and Son. .

 For the last 10 years Jeannine A. Cook has worked as a trusted writer for several startups, corporations, non-profits and influencers. In February 2020, Jeannine completed her first book of short stories, Conversations With Harriett and opened Harriett’s Bookshop in the Fishtown section of North Philadelphia. In 2021 she opened Ida’s Bookshop in Collingswood, NJ, both with the mission to celebrate women authors, women artists, and women activists. 

Jeannine is the storyteller-in-residence for the Urban Manufacturing Alliance and a critic for the Broad Street Review. 

The John C. Haas Director of the Rosenbach, Kelsey Scouten Bates, is a native of Maryland and

spent ten years in Alabama where she conducted a rhetorical analysis of the Gee’s Bend interviews, housed in the Birmingham Public Library Department of Archives & Manuscripts. She is currently working on a creative non-fiction writing project that combines her own family history and the history of the Appalachian mountains. She loves to talk about writers in the Rosenbach collections, particularly Walt Whitman, Toni Morrison, Abraham Lincoln, and William Faulkner

Darren Winston has served as Head of Department for Books and Manuscripts since 2018 and is a Freeman's representative for the New York, Connecticut, and western Massachusetts areas.   He began his career as a vintage bookseller in 1995. He spent the next 14 years selling at book fairs as well as privately, before opening his eponymous bookshop. Located in Sharon, Connecticut, Darren Winston, Bookseller offered vintage books, prints, and fine art, and hosted in-store events including book signings and art shows from 2009 to 2018.