About me
Alex Schaffner has been working in the book industry since 2003. Raised by librarians (one of them a children’s librarian at a public library), Alex has been employed and educated by public and academic libraries, trade and educational publishers, grocery stores (where you can learn a lot about cheese) and one very nearby bookstore. Alex was a founding member and co-chair of the NECBA (New England Children’s Booksellers Association) Windows and Mirrors committee, an initiative formed to uplift and highlight diverse children’s books for indie booksellers. Alex has reviewed comics and children’s literature for School Library Journal and Horn Book, as well as published in Horn Book Magazine. In 2023 and 2024, Alex served on the Boston Book Festival’s YA programming committee. Alex has worked at Brookline Booksmith since 2014–first as a children’s bookseller, then for six and change years as the Events Director, and since 2023 as the store’s first ever Community Engagement Coordinator.