Special Guest, Stephanie Galvan Russell, is booktalking YA novel Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston.

Stephanie "Lispy" Galvan Russell is a Ravenclaw/Sith librarian working, living, lifting, and reading in Austin, Texas. She prefers YA over everything and has been dubbed the YA Queen.

Stephanie is a middle school librarian in Austin, Tx. She serves on the Texas Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Committee, Intellectual Freedom Committee, Media Virtual Presence Committee, and was the 2018 YART Young Adult Reading Incentive and TASL Media Virtual Presence Honorary Award Winner for her blog, The Lispy Librarian. Her mission is to serve her community by sharing her passion for learning and love of literacy with all students.