Kyle Schlesinger is a poet, printer, and professor. He is the author of A New Kind of Country, Vast Acid West (with Crane Giamo), Swish Void (with Grant Cross), Sydney Omarr’s Wild Children (with Flynn Maria Bergann), Keep the Change (with Deborah Poe), Parts of Speech, Commonplace, and other books. Scholarly works include Threads Talks (with Steve Clay) and Poems & Pictures. He is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press and Director of the Graduate Publishing Program at UHV.

Rosmarie Waldrop’s recent books are Gap Gardening: Selected Poems (Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, 2017), Driven to Abstraction, Curves to the Apple, Blindsight (all New Directions), Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). Her novel, The Hanky of Pippin’s Daughter, has been reissued by Dorothy, a Publishing Project, and her collected essays, Dissonance (if you are interested) is out from University of Alabama Press. She has translated 14 volumes of Edmond Jabès’s work (her memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, is out from Wesleyan UP) as well as volumes by Emmanuel Hocquard, Jacques Roubaud, and, from the German, Friederike Mayröcker, Elke Erb, Oskar Pastior, Gerhard Rühm, Ulf Stolterfoht, and Peter Waterhouse. With Keith Waldrop, she has published Well Well Reality (Post-Apollo Press), Ceci n’est pas Keith Ceci n’est pas Rosmarie (autobiographies, Burning Deck), and Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop, Keeping/ the Window Open: Interviews, statements, alarms, excursions, ed. Ben Lerner (Wave Books). They live in Providence where they co-edited the small press, Burning Deck.

Keith Waldrop (born Emporia, Kansas, 1932) is retired from Brown University. His recent poetry books are Selected Poems, The Not Forever, The Real Subject (Omnidawn), Transcendental Studies (University of California Press, National Book Award 2009), and a trilogy: The Locality Principle, The Silhouette of and Semiramis If I Remember (Avec Books). Siglio has published a book of his collages, Several Gravities. His novel, Light While There Is Light, has been reissued by Dalkey Archive. He has translated Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen (Wesleyan University Press) as well as books by contemporary French poets Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Dominique Fourcade, Pascal Quignard, and Jean Grosjean. With Rosmarie Waldrop, he has published Well Well Reality (Post-Apollo Press), Ceci n’est pas Keith Ceci n’est pas Rosmarie (autobiographies, Burning Deck), and Rosmarie & Keith Waldrop, Keeping/ the Window Open: Interviews, statements, alarms, excursions, ed. Ben Lerner (Wave Books). They live in Providence where they co-edited the small press, Burning Deck.

Tom Raworth (1938–2017) was the author of over sixty books, including three volumes of selected poems: Tottering State (The Figures; 2nd ed. Paladin; 3rd ed. O Books), Clean & Well Lit (Roof Books), and As When (Carcanet Press). He was the founder of the Matrix Press, cofounder of the Goliard Press, and editor of Outburst and Infolio. His work has been translated into Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Swedish, among other languages.

Lyn Hejinian teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which are Positions of the Sun (Belladonna) and Tribunal (Omnidawn). She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions.

Alan Loney is a poet, handpress printer, and writer on the nature of the book. Recent poetry includes Crankhandle (Cordite), Heidegger’s bicycle (Paekakariki Press), Melbourne Journal (UWA Publishing), and Next to nothing (Red Dragonfly Press). His books about books include The printing of a masterpiece (Black Pepper), The books to come (Cuneiform Press), and In search of the book as a work of art (Opifex Books). Loney was printer at The Holloway Press at the University of Auckland, and has recently retired from Electio Editions. He published Verso : a magazine for the book as a work of art. He has been Literary Fellow at University of Auckland, and was awarded the poetry prize in the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards as well as The Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for a life’s achievement in poetry. Loney’s poetry has also been printed in limited editions by Granary Books, Ink-A! Press, Nawakum Press, The Press at Colorado College, Mixolydian Press, Greenboathouse Press, Ninja Press, and Barbarian Press, among others. He lives with his partner, artist and musician Miriam Morris, in Melbourne.

Jonathan Greene has published 37 books of his own writing. His latest books, all published by Broadstone Books, are Gists Orts Shards (a commonplace book), Anecdotage (autobiography) and Afloat (poems). Greene started Gnomon Press in 1965 featuring books of literature and photography. Gnomon has published sixty-six titles. He worked for a number of years as a book designer and production manager for the local university press in Kentucky, and then continued to design books for Alfred A. Knopf, The Ecco Press, Graywolf, Copper Canyon, The Jargon Society, Duke University Press, New Directions, Anvil Press, Rizzoli, Ten Speed Press, The University Press of Kentucky, Broadstone Books, North Atlantic Books, Pressed Wafer, Green Shade, and other numerous small presses.

Alastair Johnston (born Glasgow, 1950) grew up in Northern England. He has taught Visual Studies, Typography, Book Design at University of California, Berkeley & Davis from 1975 to 1986 and at U.C. Berkeley Extension from 1987–2011, where he was Honored Instructor for the Academic Year 2004. He founded Poltroon Press with artist Frances Butler in 1975, and he continues to publish original writing by contemporary authors, most recently Lucia Berlin letters. He has designed books for British Library, Oak Knoll Press, Crown Point Press, Harper/Collins, Serendipity Books. His books include Nineteenth-century American Designers & Engravers of Type by William Loy (co-editor/designer); A Discography of Docteur Nico; Transitional Faces: The Lives & Work of Richard Austin, type-cutter, and Richard T. Austin, wood-engraver; Dreaming on the Edge: Poets & Artists in California; Omnia Vanitas by Max Jacob (translator).

Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. Some of her recent books include: General Theory of Social Relativity (The Elephants), Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Press), Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée), Fabulas Feminae (Litmus Press), What Is? (Cuneiform Press), Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press), Digital_Humanities, with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, (MIT Press). Drucker is also known for her artist‘s books which were the subject of a traveling retrospective, “Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects,” in 2012-2014. In 2014 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Philip Gallo started The Hermetic Press in 1965 as a press devoted to printing concrete and visual poetry of his own design. Many of these books are now in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Walker Art Center, among others. Gallo was also closely associated with Granary Books in their start-up years, and for ten years he was their principal typographer/printer, occasionally collaborating as printer until as late as 2016. Over the last fifteen years he has collaborated extensively with the book artist, Harriet Bart. In addition to his work as a private printer/typographer/book artist (Gallo has also worked in the trade, off and on for fifty years, as both a silkscreen printer and an advertising typographer) he has published three chapbooks of poems, one entirely about the craft of printing, A Printer’s Dozen.

Steven Clay is the publisher of Granary Books, as well as an editor, curator, and archivist specializing in literature and art of the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. He is the author or editor of several volumes including Intermedia, Fluxus, and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins with Ken Friedman, Threads Talk Series with Kyle Schlesinger, A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing with Jerome Rothenberg and A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980, with Rodney Phillips. He lives in New York City and Ancramdale, NY.

Charles Alexander is a poet, bookmaker, professor, founder/director of Chax Press. He is the author of 6 full-length books of poetry and 13 brief chapbooks of poetry, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America, author of multiple essays, articles, and reviews. Most recent books of poetry are AT the Edge OF the Sea: Pushing Water II (Singing Horse Press), Pushing Water (Cuneiform Press), and the chapbooks Some Sentences Look for Some Periods, and Two Pushing Waters, both from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. Pushing Water III is forthcoming from Cuneiform Press. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University, University of Arizona, and elsewhere, including the University of Houston-Victoria, where he directed the MFA Creative Writing Program and managed the UHV Center for the Arts from 2014 through 2018. He has received the Arizona Arts Award, and has participated in the TAMAAS Poetry Translation Project in Paris, the US Poets in Mexico program, and the 7th International Chinese/American Poetry & Poetics Conference in Wuhan, Hubei, China. In April 2019, he was a keynote speaker and lecturer in the Swan Shakespeare Lecture series sponsored by Southwest University in Chongqing, China. He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his partner, the painter Cynthia Miller.

Annabel Lee is a poet, prose writer, translator, filmmaker, musician, educator, editor, typesetter, printer, bookbinder and artist. The author of Minnesota Drift, Basket, Continental 34s and At the Heart of the World, translations of Blaise Cendrars, her writing has appeared in many magazines and online journals including Hanging Loose, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Mag City, Dodgems, Exquisite Corpse, Little Caesar and she has been a contributor to several books and anthologies. As publisher of Vehicle Editions, she has received grants from the NEA and NYSCA and several titles received awards and were reviewed in The New York Times Book Review and other publications. Her artwork has been displayed in many arts spaces in the U.S. and Europe. She is a member of the board of directors of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and she was formerly on the board at Center for Book Arts in New York.

Inge Bruggeman is Assistant Professor and Area Head of the Book & Publication Arts program in the Art Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work revolves around the idea of the book — the book as object, artifact, and cultural icon. Her research and art projects seek to re-envision the book in a post-digital age. Recent exhibitions include a 4-person exhibition at the Xu Bangda Art Museum in Haining, China as part of the Juntao First National Book Art Exhibition, a solo exhibition at the New York Center for Book Art, a group exhibition titled Délires de Livres at La Galerie Écu de France in Viroflay and an exhibition at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery titled Works from the Jack Ginsberg Collection. Inge is the recipient of: the Lia Libros de Artistas International Artist’s Book Prize in Guadalajara, the Leslie Durst Individual Artist Fellowship, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, and she was a finalist for the MCBA International Artist’s Book Prize. Her work was recently featured in For the Love of Letterpress published by Bloomsbury and reviewed by Janice Braun of Mills College for Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association.

Matvei Yankelevich is a founding member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective and has curated UDP’s Eastern European Poets Series since 2002, and was a co-editor of 6×6 (2000-2017). His most recent book of poetry is Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square). His co-translation (with Eugene Ostashevsky) of Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets), received a National Translation Award. His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook). He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for Humanities. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Anna Moschovakis is the translator of The Jokers by Albert Cossery (New York Review Books Classics), which was shortlisted for both the Best Translated Book Award and the French-American Foundation / Florence Gould Award in 2011. She has also translated The Engagement by Georges Simenon and The Possession by Annie Ernaux. Her translation of Nazis dans le Métro by Didier Daeninckx is forthcoming from Melville House.

Aaron Cohick is a printer/artist/publisher based in Colorado Springs, CO. He is the founder and proprietor of the NewLights Press and is the Printer of The Press at Colorado College. Aaron’s work, under both imprints, is held in many public and private collections, including the Library of Congress, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Library, the National Library of Australia, the Letterform Archive, the SFMOMA Library, the Newberry Library, and the Tate Britain Library.

Scott Pierce studied writing and media arts at the University of New Mexico, and then studied poetry in Austin with the poets Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith and the painter Philip Trussell. Scott began designing, printing, and binding books at Skanky Possum Press before establishing Effing Press in Austin. Effing Press produced roughly 45 titles of poetry books and issues of effing magazine and delivered design and print work at large. His own books include The TV Poems (Blazevox), Some Bridges Migrate (Small Fires Press), and Exploder (Black & Blue LP).