ABA Announces 2020 Board of Directors Election Results

The results of balloting by the bookstore members of the American Booksellers Association to elect three directors to serve on the ABA Board are now official.

Elected to three-year terms (2020–2023) as directors are:

• Kenny Brechner of Devaney, Doak and Garrett Booksellers in Farmington, Maine
• Christine Onorati of WORD in Brooklyn, New York, and Jersey City, New Jersey
• Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Company in Seattle, Washington

Brechner and Onorati are coming to the end of their first three-year terms on the Board, while Tigani was serving the unexpired period of what would have been ABA President Jamie Fiocco’s term as a Board member and is now eligible for a full term. 

Continuing on the 11-member Board are ABA President Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and ABA Vice President Bradley Graham of Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., as well as board directors Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, Oregon; Kelly Estep of Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky; Kris Kleindienst of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri; Chris Morrow of Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont, and Saratoga Springs, New York; Pete Mulvihill of Green Apple Books in San Francisco, California; and Angela Maria Spring of Duende District Books in Washington, D.C., and Albuquerque, New Mexico.