Melissa Taylor has been named a Books Across Borders Spring 2025 RISE Fellow to the RISE Bookselling Conference in Riga, Latvia.

Taylor is a bookseller with over 20 years of industry experience. She is currently the co-owner of E. Shaver, Bookseller which was named Best Bookstore in the South by the readers of Southern Living and is also included in the book 150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before You Die. She is the cohost of the podcast Pull Your Shelf Together and serves on the finance committee of the Binc Foundation. She also serves as a member of the SIBA Board of Directors. She lives in Savannah with her husband (a former bookseller) and their two rescue dogs.

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SIBA is a sponsor of Books Across Borders, a nonprofit organization that provides booksellers with travel fellowships to international book fairs, in addition to other programs that support the development of global literary community.