Scott Landfield has been a worker/owner of Tsunami Books for 29 years. His parents each owned bookstores in the Midwest at times in their lives between newspaper work. Scott came to Oregon in 1978 to plant trees. Over a 20 year career he planted over 2 million trees, while taking the summers off to be with his daughter. At present he works too many hours at the bookstore to finish any of the books he has spent his adult life writing.

Emily Poole is a freelance illustrator and science fiction and fantasy enthusiast. She has been working in bookstores since high school in Jackson, Wyoming. She specializes in animal and natural history art, and has done illustrations for the book BirdNote, posters for Mt. Pisgah Arboretum, and posters for the Oregon Country Fair. She is currently working on an illustrated calendar of weird things that wash up on the beach, a book of northwestern trees, and pictures for a book of salamanders. She hopes to read a hundred books this year.

Steve G. Ellerhoff is a fiction writer, literary scholar, and associate editor at Tsunami Press. He holds a PhD from the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. His latest book is Jung and Star Wars: A Contemporary Mythology (Routledge, 2025). Past books include a co-edited collection of critical essays on Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family (Routledge, 2020), and Mole (Reaktion Books, 2020). He is currently writing a novel set in Portland.

Valerie Ihsan, Book Coach and Story Analyst, writes memoirs, women’s fiction, and nonfiction for writers. She co-chaired the Eugene Chapter of Willamette Writers for over eight years, diagnoses manuscripts as a Certified Three Story Method Editor, and helps authors write memoirs. She podcasts at the Writer Craft Podcast, loves dogs, and runs an annual transformational writing retreat and workshop in Marcola, OR. She lives in Oregon with her husband and three dogs.

Liam was told at a young age that he was the love-child of an alien and a monkey and the older he gets the more it seems true. He's been working in libraries and bookstores most of his adult life and can usually be found reveling in Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Liam is a big ol' dork that loves rock-climbing, hiking, critters of all sorts, TTRPGs, video games, board games, and really any geeky activity. Find him if you'd like to talk books, any/all things nerdy, or about how you too always cry watching the masterpiece The Iron Giant.

Wild-raised on the Oregon coast with her sister and cousins, Andrea grew up unsupervised—building forts, exploring, and raiding her mom’s shelves of horror, fantasy, feminist lit, and myth. Fridays meant 321 Video, where she’d sneak into the horror section to study the scariest covers. A lifelong fan of anything creepy or gross, she always has a book on hand (yes, she can read and walk). A collage artist and movie obsessive, she joined the shop in 2025 and is proud to be a third-generation book clerk—her mom Angela and grandma Eula both clerking at Books ‘N’ Bears in Florence, OR.