PROFILE: Deep Vellum, Dallas TX

When people ask Riley Rennhack how she became the bookstore director at Deep Vellum, she says her career emerged from reading too much. After leaving Texas and moving to New York for college, she kept a watchful eye on the literary developments back in Dallas. Riley would then discover Deep Vellum when they published Texas: A Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa. Then an undergraduate studying Spanish and translation, she sent the publisher and founder of Deep Vellum, Will Evans, an email about how much she loved their first release.