Alex Brown is a young adult librarian and local historian. She writes about pop culture and reviews YA and adult SF/F, comics, TV, and movies for Tor.com, as well as on her blog bookjockeyalex.com. Diversity, equity, and inclusion set the foundation of all her work. Her first book, Hidden History of Napa Valley, a historical non-fiction examination of marginalized communities in the North Bay, will be published in Spring 2019. Alex lives in the Bay Area with her old, grumpy pet rat, Jonathan Strange.  Twitter: @QueenOfRats Insta: @BookJockeyAlex