Veronica Liu

Veronica Liu is a writer, editor, bookseller, and arts organizer. She is co-founder and general coordinator of the 60-person collective that operates Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria, which started 15 years ago in her upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights.She worked for more than a decade at Seven Stories Press, where she currently contributes as an editor at large, and she cut her teeth inbookselling as book buyer’s assistant and website producer at Kim’s Video and Music.Veronica has been a Books Across Borders Fellow, aPublishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree, and an honorable mention for the ABA’s inaugural Entrepreneurial Excellence Award. The Manhattan Borough President’s Office and the National Dominican Day Parade jointly honored her as an “Adopted Dominican” in August 2022.