We had an amazing time at Meet the Presses this year. The event always brings out so many incredible people doing such wonderful work. It's hard to believe that last year was DP's first Meet the Presses ever, and we only had 2 books!! What a fantastic year! Thank you to everyone who stopped by! #Fall2016 #Publishing #Community #Toronto #Shop #JessieJones #VincentPage #StevieHowell #Bookstore #MeetthePresses #SmallPress #BookFair #Chapbooks #MichelleBrown #BrookeLockyer

Desert Pets are now available at Type Books! Get 'em while they're hot! :) #TypeBooks #BrookeLockyer #MichelleBrown #Bookstore #Toronto #Chapbooks #Spring2016

Desert Pets celebrated our second season with the launch of Brooke Lockyer's Moon Bones/Silver Tooth and Michelle Brown's Foreign Experts Building. The night was a tremendous success! Thank you to The Emergency Response Unit and Phoebe Wang for sharing the evening with us, Reunion Island Coffee Bar for hosting us, and everyone for coming out! #Launch #SmallPress #Publishing #Poets #Spring2016 #MichelleBrown #TheEmergencyResponseUnit #Reading #Toronto #Chapbooks #BrookeLockyer

MICHELLE BROWN is a writer from Vancouver Island, currently living in Toronto and working as a copywriter. She's had work published in The Puritan, Prism, CV2, Arc, and The Malahat Review, amongst others. Recently shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, she's excitedly awaiting her first chapbook (with Desert Pets Press) in May, and her first full-length collection (with Palimpsest Press) in 2018. BROOKE LOCKYER's short stories,