- Welcoming J.K. Fowler -

We’re excited to share that Nomadic Press founder J.K. Fowler was appointed chair of Foglifter’s board of directors.

Fowler is currently the executive director of the Bay Area Book Festival, where he helps convene readers, writers, and assorted troublemakers for conversations that stretch from the hyperlocal to the global. He also serves as Policy and Operations Analyst with BAMBD, CDC, happily living at the intersection of arts, policy, and organizing. He founded Nomadic Press in 2011, a community-rooted publishing house headquartered in Oakland that paused operations in 2023 and will reemerge in a different form in 2026, with Nomadic Bookshop, opened with his husband Uriel in December 2025, as its new home and experiment in radical hospitality and book love.

As chair of Foglifter’s board of directors, Fowler will provide leadership and direction to the board’s strategic planning process in the coming years.