Alex was born in Paris and moved to New York City in 2007. Following his undergraduate studies in Montreal, he earned his executive-education degree in digital marketing at Columbia Business School. In 2016, Alex joined Assouline, a luxury publishing house founded in Paris by his parents in 1994, and has since forged his own path within the company. In 2025, he was appointed president of the company. Alex initiated Assouline’s collaboration with Zara in 2021, which featured the publishing house’s acclaimed “Travel Series.” He also directed the creative production of additional products such as the A Bookstand, notebooks, candles and other lifestyle objects.

Meredith Graves is a multimedia artist, writer and researcher based in Brooklyn, NY, whose professional resume includes time spent as the anchor of MTV News and as an Outreach Director at Kickstarter (where she initiated and launched successful fundraising programs specifically for occultural artists). Graves is first and foremost a storyteller, who uses her journalistic and analytic skills alongside her lifelong passion for myth, theater and fairy tales to sublimate and reinterpret a broad array of topics and genres ranging from hardcore punk to material culture, political journalism to economics and criminology. 

Connor Holloway (they/them) born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, is a dancer, reader, writer, producer and content creator. Connor moved to NYC in 2013 to dance with American Ballet Theatre where they met Isabella Boylston and later launched the Webby-nominated, Ballerina Book Club, in partnership with ALL ARTS in 2020. 

Karah Preiss is a creative producer living in New York City. She cofounded Belletrist Book Club with actress Emma Roberts, along with Belletrist Productions, a TV and film production company.

Isabella Boylston is an international ballet star and Principal Dancer of American Ballet Theatre. She has transcended onto the big screen in the film Red Sparrow, as well as recently starring in Laufey’s "Santa Baby" music video along with Bill Murray. In addition to having an active social media presence, she runs Ballerina Book Club with her cohosts Connor Holloway and AllArts to share her lifelong love of reading.​​​​​​​​​​

Levi Higgs is the Head of Archives and Brand Heritage at David Webb, and a jewelry and decorative arts historian. A graduate of the Parsons MA program in the history of decorative arts and design at the Cooper Hewitt, he has recently begun teaching a jewelry history and pop culture seminar for the department. He has written broadly on the topic of jewelry, given lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, and Christie’s. You can follow his glittering day-to-day on Instagram at @levi_higgs. 

Sarah Hoover holds a master’s degree in cultural theory from Columbia University and a BA in art history from NYU. Her writing has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s Bazaar, Psychology Today, Mother Tongue, The Strategist, and Vogue. Her debut memoir, The Motherload, is a national best seller and Belletrist Book Club’s January 2025 pick. 

Emma Roberts is an acclaimed actress, executive producer, and co-founder of Belletrist Book Club alongside Karah Preiss. Under their Belletrist TV production banner, Emma served as a co-executive producer on the critically acclaimed series Tell Me Lies. On the small screen, she is recognized for her starring roles in Scream Queens and multiple seasons of the anthology horror series American Horror Story. Her silver screen credits include We’re the Millers, Holidate, and the upcoming Old Pals.