Chris Oakley

Chris Oakley owned and operated Oakley’s Gently Used Books, a bricks & mortar used bookshop with a specialty in Sci Fi/Fantasy, for more than 20 years (1995-2016) in Charlottesville, VA and a bookseller at Madicon, MarsCon, MystiCon, RavenCon, Libertycon, DSC50, DSC60 and Omegacon. She has edited and published “undergound" newspapers as well as literary magazines. (Chris Oakley collection of alternative press, Special Collections, University of Delaware). As a GCIU Journeyman, she worked in small commercial print shops before opening her bookshop in 1995. She was the organizer and moderator for the VA Festival of the Book Sci Fi/ Fantasy programs with Katherine Kurtz, Hugh Howey, Stephen Hickman, Toni Weisskopf, Kim Harrison, Colleen Doran, David Coe, Jack Campbell (John Hemry) and others. She does volunteer work to raise money for her local Friends of the Library (Jefferson-Madison Regional) book sales. (Our team raised over $160,000 for the library system at our October 2024 sale.)