Our Team
Cheryl Popp & Sparky
Cheryl Popp
A kid who always loved books. And tends to hoard them now. Long-time Sausalito resident. Marketing communications specialist and survivor of corporate America (Robertson Stephens, Credit Suisse First Boston?)
A girl who can’t say no. Former president Sausalito Chamber of Commerce, Sausalito Business Advisory Council Chair, Flag Officer Sausalito Yacht Club.
Still crazy after all these years. Founding director & curator Sausalito Film Festival, Sausalito-Cascais Sister City program chair, Marin Humane Society board of directors, Sausalito Beautiful Advisory Board, Sausalito Woman’s Club, Sausalito Books by the Bay.
2011 recipient of the Spirit of Marin award. Published writer, former radio talk show host and journalist, native of the San Francisco Bay Area, graduate of U.C. Berkeley.
Go Bears. Buy books.
Jeff Battis
Jeff Battis
Jeff is our Book Buyer. If there is a specific book you want to know about, ask Jeff. He has over 20 year experience in the book store business in the Bay Area.
On most days, you can see Jeff riding his bicycle back and forth across the Golden gate Bridge as he commutes from the City to Sausalito.
His hero is Johnny Cash. Is this why he is always dressed in black?
Jennifer Barry
Jenny has a 360-degree view of books. She's a designer, author, and former publisher, as well as a lifelong reader. And now, a bookseller!
As a creator, she's made hundreds of visual books with collaborators from Charles Schulz to Carla Hall, Frances Mayes, and Galen Rowell.
As a reader, she's most drawn to detective mysteries, biographies, and cookbooks. (The only book club she's ever joined was a cookbook club because she wants to read what she wants to read when she wants to read it.) She's a lifelong foodie and art lover—museums, farmers markets, and gardens are her happy places.
Jenny loves meeting readers from all over the Bay Area and the world, and recommending the perfect gift or next read. She'd love to hear a delicious dish you ate or made, too!
Jennifer Barry
Matthew Kline
Mathew Kline
"Matthew studied Romantic English poetry at a school in Portland and spent a lot of time in bookstores as a natural side effect. He's been honored to continue such a lifestyle as a part of the team at Sausalito Books.
During the pandemic years, he got an MFA in Creative Writing from Dominican University, and he loves collaborating with their writing workshops through group readings and events here at the bookstore! In addition to some tutoring, proofreading and short fiction publications, he's been working on finishing his novel (yes, really!) and breaking his overreliance on coffee."
Patricia O’Brien
Patricia is a lover of words. She agrees with the English Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge who said: prose—words in their best order; poetry—the best words in their best order.
After earning a BA in English, she returned to school twenty years later, earned a teaching credential, and soon after, taught high school English for twenty-five years where she and her students read classic and contemporary literature and poetry. They recited a poem a day throughout the school year.
She now spends her time reading (mostly) fiction and poetry, writing poetry, exercising daily, working at Sausalito Books by the Bay, and savoring the preciousness of life.
Here she is wearing her ‘banned book’ dress, an original creation, featuring titles of the banned books she had taught during her teaching career.
Patricia O’Brien
Staff in the Backroom
Patricia Wood CFO
Patricia Wood
A native Californian privileged to grow up in a family that treasured books and a town with a wonderful children’s library. Former co-owner of a financial services company, Pearson-Wood Assoc.
My favorite books are mysteries and biographies. My current goal is to contribute to the success of the bookstore. My long-term goal has been and continues to be obliterating the glass ceiling.
Webmaster
Jim Meyer
When not discussing the thermal properties of light with his friend Albert, Jim can be seen around Sausalito at the Dog Park, Sister City Events and the Portuguese Hall.
For reading, he enjoys 20th century non-fiction especially the people and events of that era. His favorite writer is Robert Penn Warren. Could it be because Mr. Warren was born only 15 miles from Jim’s hometown in Tennessee?
Quoting Jim, “If you can have cows in Berkeley, you sure as heck should have a bookstore in Sausalito.”
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”