Michele Karlsberg brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity/marketing campaigns for authors, organizations and film/theater professionals. She has worn many hats in her twenty-three year book publishing career . She was recently presented with the Publishing Triangle Leadership Award and was also inducted into the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall Of Fame in New Orleans. Along with Olivia Travel, she produced the first Olivia Book Expo on the Holland America Cruise Line.

As curator of Outspoken, a nationwide gay and lesbian literary series, she helps new and established voices reach a wider audience. She is co-editor of To Be Continued and To Be Continued, Take Two (Firebrand Books). Her first piece published to be published in the anthology Love, Christopher Street ( June 2012). Before turning to publicity more than 23 years ago, Karlsberg was co-founder of Amethyst Press, described by Sarah Schulman as having published "the most interesting collection of gay male writing in the history of our literature. As a publicist, Karlsberg has worked with Kate Clinton, Anthony Bidulka, Jewelle Gomez, Felice Picano, Ellen Hart, Katherine V. Forrest, and Martin Duberman, among others.