Owner

Tony spent most of his childhood in the bookstore, influenced by books and the diverse staff who sold them. He started working at the bookstore in 1972, when he was ten years old. He worked from jobs such as sweeping and deliveries up through bookkeeping to management and the buying and selling of used and rare books. Today he manages the bookstore’s rare book department, buying estates and performing appraisals. He is former president of the Intermountain Booksellers As...

Owner & Lead New Book Buyer

Catherine is co-owner of Sam Wellers Bookstore. Her duties include supervising the new book buying functions. She began working at Wellers in 1994 as a floor clerk in the used and new books sections. She has also worked in Institutional Sale, Inventory Control, Payroll and Bookkeeping. She has served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA), and has also served on the Booksellers Advisory Council o...

Office Manager & Artist

Stephanie Lietch has worked at Wellers for 10 years in numerous support capacities, including doing the graphics and advertising, curating art shows, and keeping the books for the books. She is also a knuckle-dragging artist and mother to a quirky and inordinately bookish son.

Events & Outreach Coordinator

John Clukey is our Events Coordinator and head of Community Outreach. John began his career in bookselling at Borders in 1998 (he applied at Sam Wellers Bookstore at the same time). He joined the Wellers staff in 2006 as a bookseller in new and used books. He has since been a section leader and a used book buyer. John enjoys reading from all subjects, but particularly likes science fiction and science writing.

New Book Buyer

Bruce Christensen has been working at Sam Wellers for almost 33 years. He is currently our buyer for mass market, mysteries, western fiction, romance, thrillers and self-published books. Bruce is also the facilitator at several bookclubs. His favorite activity outside of work is, oddly enough, reading.

Sidelines Buyer

Judges books by their covers. Enjoys collecting tomes. Neglects putrid poetry. Neil Gaiman, SWOON! In love with Mark Twain. Forgets easily, so she recites out loud. Excited about neuroscience! And unicorns! Requires quite time for comic book reading.

Computers

Travis Nelson arrived to the valley from the northern wastes on his trusty salamander steed, Slagathor. He splits his time between gardening, raising a child and wife, music, books, and imagining less mundane activities in a purely hack & slash style. When not day dreaming or tapping out beats on a desk, he can be seen trying to keep the computer systems from a logic loop.

Buyer & Sales Floor Manager

After 10 years experience bookselling in Southern California, including 3 years of owning and operating his own store, Frank has now been working for Wellers for 15 years. In addition to being our buyer for art, entertainment, Western Americana and religion, Frank is our Manager of Retail Sales.

Bookseller

Elizabeth lives, works and attends college in Salt Lake City. She is majoring in Anthropology at the University of Utah and loving it. Accordingly, her literary tastes are somewhat, uhm, omnivorous? Perhaps amphibious would be better: rather than devouring books regardless of their genre, she inhabits multiple literary environments simultaneously.

Rare Books

Joan Nay has worked at Sam Weller's since before dirt was invented, and it is rumored that she knows where all the bodies are buried. That isBefore Computers, when the original inventory system was kept on small cards. She was mentored by Sam Weller himself, and has lived the last 37 years of store and book world history. She worked mostly in Used and Rare Books, and now works solely in the Rare Book Department where she is a used/rare book buyer; she does appraisals, an...

Bookseller

When Rabb is not reading books about microtonal music and polyrhythm, he's out back playing marbles.

Display Coordinator

Come to Wellers to enjoy Lane's “engaging warmth and vitality.” -Salt Lake City Weekly, May 5, 2011

Bookseller

Zach Sampinos reads fiction written by grumpy old men, enjoys stand-up comedy, and likes to touch hot stoves.

Bookseller

Liz Shattler has been working at Sam Weller's since August of 2007 when she moved to SLC from Orange County, California. Her reasoning for moving to SLC was that it was cheaper than Los Angeles and she wouldn't have to fly in every year for the Sundance Film Festival anymore. Though Liz is an avid film fan, she also loves books! Her favorite authors include Joyce Carol Oates, Chuck Palahniuk, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and Sarah Schulman, to name a few. (Ho...

New Book Buyer

Debra is the main buyer for our children's section. She started working with books at a chain in 1975 but moved up to Weller's in 1984. She will read any good fiction but is passionately in love with science fiction, fantasy and horror, and she also became the buyer for those sections in 2002.