About Friends of Miami Book Fair

The Friends of Miami Book Fair are a wonderfully eclectic and engaged group of individuals – of all ages, interests, and walks of life – united in their love of great books and bringing great writers to Miami.

Miami Book Fair, and the positive impact it has on the community, is only possible because of community support. The Fair requires more than $3 million each year to operate, and rising costs are beginning to outpace how much we raise/earn each year. If we want the Miami Book Fair is to continue bringing readers and writers together at this scale, the community must collectively invest in it. Become a Friend or renew your membership today and help us sustain our work.

“’Thank You’ is not enough for what the Book Fair has meant to me throughout my four decades in Miami.”

– Mervyn Solomon

“The wonderful support offered during our first year as Friends of the Fair truly made the experience special. We enjoyed it so much!”

– Maureen Glabman

“Your organization has a 40 year track record of success and has brought so much joy and knowledge to my wife and I.”

– David W. Singer, Esq.

“Congratulations on another truly satisfying and enjoyable book fair this year. There’s a reason we tell everyone we know that the book fair is the time of year we look forward to the most. We’ve already started reading through the books we collected this year at the fair, and it’s kind of thrilling to have that connection – those memories – of having met the authors in person and hear what they had to say!”

– Mike Jankulak

Help Us Reach Our 2026 Goal: $225K

Questions? Need More Information?

Please contact Friend liaisons Annalisa Damley and Lisa Better at 305.237.2577 (membership office) or ADamley@mdc.edu and 786.208.5402 (Annalisa’s cell). 

For technical support, please contact Miami Book Fair’s official ticket provider SquadUP – a mobile ticketing, event management, and audience engagement software platform – at 800.210.0689 (M-F, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET) or Support@SquadUP.com.