Meet the LBB team

Local Brand Books was founded by an educator, an agent and editor, and a journalist, published writers who outside their day jobs pen novels, short stories, nonfiction, memoir and poetry. They envision LBB as a press collective publishing an eclectic mix of what they love to read and write, from poetry, to literary fiction, mysteries and thrillers, to post-modern, memoir and creative nonfiction.

Editor-in-Chief
Heidi Vornbrock Roosa completed her graduate degree in writing at Johns Hopkins University, where she now teaches fiction. She was Gallery curator for The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, and her short literary work has appeared in Blackbird, The Normal School, and Pear Noir!, among other journals. Her genre and crime fiction, written under the pseudonyms Regina Harvey and McLean Jacobson, has also been published by Shots (UK), Toasted Cheese, and has been recognized with a place on the British Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger shortlist (Taking the Village), as well as with the Malice Domestic Grant. She lives in the Baltimore area with her husband, a former Baltimore City Police civilian commander.

Associate Editor
Formerly a long-time film-industry camera assistant and long-time, award-winning journalist, Susan C. Ingram’s short stories, novel- and memoir-excerpts have been published in So To Speak, Dime Show Review, Sick Lit Magazine, Jersey Devil Press and Seltzerzine. She holds an MA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University and lives in the Baltimore suburbs with her two rescue cats, Mack and Baine. More at newzcook.wordpress.com.

Associate Editor
Formerly an archaeologist, Emily Williamson is currently Senior Editor with Chrysalis Editorial in Washington, DC and founder of Williamson Literary in Baltimore, MD. Her poetry has appeared in The Waterhouse Review, Jersey Devil Press and is forthcoming in Measure. Her poetry chapbook, Dead Reckoning was winner of the 2018 No Chair Press Chapbook contest, due out in April 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in Blackbird, Word Riot, and Peacock Journal; another of her stories was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open 2012. She has a BA in Anthropology from American University and an MA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University.

Lead Designer
Mikaela Roosa‘s work as a writer started at the age of thirteen with a badly written three-hundred-page fantasy novel and grew by the time she was seventeen to a published award-winning literary short story. Today, she has seven-years experience working in independent publishing. She’s designed numerous book jackets, edited and formatted manuscripts, and created supplementary content for novels. She majored in interdisciplinary arts from Eckerd College with a minor in Mandarin Chinese. In her spare time, she cares for her four rescue dogs and plays dungeons and dragons or listens to The Adventure Zone.”