MEET THE TEAM
EMILY KEELING
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Emily Keeling is the Managing Director of Inpress Books and The Poetry Book Society. The longest-serving member of staff, she has over a decade of experience with Inpress and a deep understanding of its operations. Previously Finance Manager, Emily played a key role in shaping financial strategy and developing digital publishing services. She studied English Literature with French at Newcastle University and is passionate about supporting independent publishers and championing bold, distinctive literary voices.
ALICE KATE MULLEN
PBS MANAGER & NEXT GENERATION POETS DIRECTOR
Alice Kate Mullen is Manager of the Poetry Book Society. She designs and produces the quarterly Bulletin magazine in-house, runs the PBS marketing campaigns and events programme. She’s worked in poetry publishing since 2010, including at Carcanet Press and PN Review. Prior to that she worked in bookselling and events at Waterstones, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, on a Chicago Poetry Foundation mentorship and as a Sydney Writers’ Festival Bibliotherapist. She co-founded the Northern Poetry Symposium in 2017, co-programmes Newcastle Poetry Festival and sits on the Poetry Translation Centre advisory board. She was recently selected as an India-UK British Council International Publishing Fellow and represented UK poetry at Bhutan Book Festival and a Beijing Poetry Festival.
ELLEN WELSH
SALES AND MARKETING ASSISTANT
Ellen Welsh is Sales & Marketing Assistant at the Poetry Book Society, assisting with all things marketing and overseeing our day-to-day operations. She has a background in bookselling, working for Collected Books in Durham and Waterstones prior to her role here. Ellen holds an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University.
MEGAN ROBSON
FINANCE EXECUTIVE
Megan is all about making sure things add up here at Inpress and the Poetry Book Society. As well as overseeing finance, she is the face of our weekly books roundup, Meg's Monday Muse, and supports Inpress publishers with eBooks. Megan also writes poetry under the name Megan Pattie. Her publications are Tracts (The Black Light Engine Room, 2021) and Bertha Comes Down (Broken Sleep Books, 2026).
Tom MacAndrew
NEXT GENERATION POETS PRODUCER
Tom MacAndrew is a freelance producer with over 15 years experience delivering poetry, spoken word and live literature projects. He is the director of independent production company Something Happening, and has delivered work for clients including BBC, British Library, British Museum, Forward Arts Foundation & World Book Day. He co-created and runs Deptford Literature Festival with London Writers Centre; and for 10 years was the producer for Out-Spoken, London’s largest regular poetry night, and its publishing house Out-Spoken Press. Tom has developed and toured shows nationally and internationally with writers including Joelle Taylor, Joshua Idehen and John Hegley. Tom is a 2025-26 Clore Leadership Fellow.
James routledge
NEXT GENERATION POETS ADMIN ASSISTANT
James Routledge joined the Poetry Book Society as the Next Generation Poets Admin Assistant in 2026. Alongside his work at the PBS, James is also the Key Accounts and Sales Manager at Inpress Books and is the founder of Opt Indie Books, a platform dedicated to supporting small presses and indie bookshops across the UK. James also co-hosts Books Unpacked, a book industry podcast exploring the lifecycle of a book.
MEET THE BOARD
ANNE NOLAN
Anne Nolan is Managing Publisher for Reading-based Two Rivers Press, publishing poetry, local interest and art & nature titles. She has wide books and publishing experience, having spent 3 years as a bookseller, 25 years in academic book publishing in marketing, sales, and production editorial roles, and 5 years working freelance and as a consultant with a special (and growing!) interest in small press publishing.
JOANNA REYNOLDS
CHAIR OF THE BOARD
Joanna Reynolds is CEO of Folio Books, having had a long career in publishing with Which?, Reader’s Digest and Time Warner.
Azad Sharma
The 87 Press
Azad Ashim Sharma is the director of the87press and serves as poetry editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs and the CLR James Journal; he is also the commissioning editor of The Hythe Review. He is a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Boiled Owls (Nightboat Books / Out-Spoken Press, 2024) which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Poetry Prize. His second collection Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award. In July 2025, Azad was inaugurated as the Poet Laureate of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He lives in South London and is currently working on a novel and his fourth collection of poetry.