Suzanne Rackover is Art Librarian at the Banff Centre where she oversees the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives collection of 4,200 artist’s books.


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A 2012 graduate of the bookbinding program at North Bennett Street School - Erin Fletcher is owner/bookbinder at Herringbone Bindery in South Boston.


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Melissa Jay Craig is renowned for her handmade paper book works, sculptures and installations. She is also a curator, writer and award-winning educator. Meredith Winer, founder/director of TRANSIT, guest-hosts.


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Teacher and artist Velma Bolyard works with fiber, paper, books and landscape; Aimee Lee guest-hosts.


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Frank Brannon is the proprietor of SpeakEasy Press near Dillsboro, North Carolina. His approach to publishing is holistic: on-site letterpress printing, hand papermaking and bookbinding.


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Donald Glaister is a design binder using unusual binding materials, visual humor and spontaneous visual expression - all within the framework of the classical European fine binding form. He directs the Fine Binding Program at the American Academy of Bookbinding.


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Born in Lisbon, artist Paula Roush currently lives in London. She organized an installation of 'ABCED' - a group project of ABC Artists' Book Cooperative, celebrating the 75th birthday of Ed Ruscha.


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Artist Aimee Lee is the author of Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking, newly published by The Legacy Press. She built the first Hanji studio in North America at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.


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Michael Maranda is a Toronto-based artist with an interest in artists' books. He is the proprietor of Parasitic Ventures Press, a baker at The Book Bakery and a member of ABC Artists' Books Cooperative.


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Designer, printer and binder Sarah Bryant is the proprietor of Big Jump Press. She was the 2008-2011 Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book Arts at Wells College and the 2011 winner of the MCBA Artist's Book Prize.


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Sam Ita is an author, artist, and paper-engineer. He invented the pop-up classic comic book and is the author of four pop-up/comic book adaptations - 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Moby Dick, Frankenstein and The Odyssey.


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Matthew Carson, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich organized 10x10 Japanese Photobooks, a pop-up reading room coinciding with the NY Art Book Fair. It was sponsored by the ICP Library and the Photobook Facebook Group.


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Josh Hockensmith produces handmade artist books and blank books under the name blue bluer books. He also curates the artist book collection at the University of North Carolina Art Library.


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Natalie Stopka binds books using uncommon fibers, repurposed hand dyed fabrics and vintage textiles. She was a 2011/12 Van Lier/Stein Scholar at the Center for Book Arts, NYC and a 2012 intern at the Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn.


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Beth Morris is an assistant librarian at the Yale Center for British Art. Her 2010 MSLS thesis focuses on how artists' book collections are used, accessed and developed within academic institutions.


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Laura Hoptman is Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. She organized the recent exhibition Ecstatic Alphabet/Heaps of Language.


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Steve Miller coordinates the Book Arts MFA Program at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He is the longtime host of the Book Artists and Poets podcast series.


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Will Noel is Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. He is also an Archimedes Palimpsest enthusiast, and he likes to make Creative Commons digital assets out of medieval manuscripts.


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Or Books is the fiction and non-fiction publisher known for embracing progressive change in politics, culture and business. Co-founder Colin Robinson addresses the challenges facing contemporary publishing.


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The Journal of Artists' Books aka JAB provides a platform for theoretical and creative expression. Founder and editor-in-chief Brad Freeman speaks with Miriam Schaer.


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Based in Oakland, California, Macy Chadwick publishes artist’s books and limited-edition prints under the imprint In Cahoots Press. She is the recipient of the CBAA Emerging Educator Award 2012.


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Mumbai-based artist Priya Pereira of Pixiebks recently visited New York; Cheryl Costello guest-hosts.


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Bookbinder and book artist Reg Beatty has maintained a studio in Toronto since 1992; he regularly writes and lectures about book culture. Nancy Jacobi guest-hosts.


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Bookbinder, book artist and printmaker Simon Goode is in the process of founding the London Centre for Book Arts.


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Dan Morris and Micah Slawinski-Currier co-own The Dale Guild Type Foundry, one of the last producers of true metal foundry type; Dan also runs The Arm Letterpress. Guest-host is Russell Maret.


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Kathleen Walkup is a founding member of the The College Book Art Association; she also directs the book art program at Mills College in Oakland, California.


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French Theory Today: An Introduction to Possible Futures was published as a pamphlet series by The Public School New York. Anne Callahan, Sarah Resnick and Kamomi Solidum transcribed, researched, solicited, edited, designed, hand-Risographed and handbound the 700 pamphlets.


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In rural Argentina, book artist Alex Appella co-owns Transient Books - a custom hand bindery with a global customer base.


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The Bonefolder, an open-access online journal founded in 2004, ceased publication in January 2012. Founder and publisher Peter Verheyen and long-time editor Karen Hanmer comment. Miriam Schaer guest-hosts.


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Artist and educator Scott McCarney lives, works and gardens in Rochester, New York.


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Founder and CEO of The Japanese Paper Place, Nancy Jacobi mixes art with business, tradition with innovation and passion with purpose.


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Susan K. Filter and Peter Rutledge Koch are directors of the Codex Foundation, hosting both the CODEX International Book Fair and the inaugural CODEX Mexico.


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Poet and printer Nancy Campbell studied English at Oxford and printing with Barbarian Press. Her newest artist's books respond to her residency at Upernavik Museum, Greenland.


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Artist, musician and writer Adam O'Reilly is on staff at Printed Matter,
the world's largest non-profit organization promoting publications made by artists.


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Moveable Type is Kyle Durrie, currently on the road with a fully functional letterpress printshop inside her 1982 Chevy step van.


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Barbara Mauriello publishes her own one-of-a-kind and limited edition artist books. She also collaborates with other artists and writers in producing limited editions of their work in book form.


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Abigail Uhteg is a second year conservation student at West Dean College in England. Her 2009 video The Complex of All of These, documenting the making of her artist's book of the same name, currently has 100,000 views on YouTube.


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Garry Neill Kennedy is a conceptual artist; his exhibitions and installations include printed matter. He taught studio art at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design for more than 40 years and was president of the College from 1967 to 1990.


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The Dawson Collection is one of Canada's most significant collections of functional typographical material, including over 1500 drawers of metal and wood type. It is maintained by a dedicated group of volunteers - The Letterpress Gang.


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Weproductions (est. 1971) has published a generation of artists' books characterized by the unlimited edition, the paperback format and offset printing. Weproductions' Helen Douglas is interviewed by Brandon Graham.


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Judith Ivry Studio is a Manhattan-based, full service bindery established in 1986. Conservator and binder Judith Ivry gives a studio tour.


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Neale Albert collects miniature books and commissions miniature designer bindings. The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings is on permanent exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York ( catalog pdf ); Laurence Fayard guest-hosts.


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Chicago binder, book and installation artist Karen Hanmer is interviewed by Peter Verheyen.


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Rhonda Miller is the proprietor of My Handbound Books, an Etsy store and the publisher of My Handbound Books, a bookbinding blog.


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Laurence Fayard guest-hosts a panel discussion with Alexander Campos
director, The Center for Book Arts;  Rocio Cerón poet and editor/publisher of El Billar de Lucrecia;  Gavin Dovey  bookbinder, Paper Dragon Books;  Lisa Mackie  printmaker;  Natalia Porter  designer/visual artist.


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Brandon Graham is a book artist and writer who lives in Chicago. He currently has an ongoing relationship with the Journal of Artist Books (JAB) where he writes articles and reviews books.


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Linda Hanauer is an artist and teacher. She teaches studio art, papermaking and bookbinding at The Dalton School in New York City.


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The SP Weather Station is a rooftop weather station in Long Island City, New York. Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson, SPWS organizes weather-related publications, exhibitions and events.


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George Stenson is the founder of  Tedorigawa Bookmakers, a bindery in Kanazawa, Japan. Over the last four years, his short Tedorigawa bookbinding audio dramas have gained an international following.


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Peter Verheyen is a conservator and bookbinder. He created and maintains The Book Arts Web and is the founder and publisher of an e-journal, The Bonefolder.


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Situated in Brooklyn, Strike Three Press publishes handbound illustrated letterpress books. New Kickstarter campaign for Ginny's new book - through November 12th, 2012


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Tara Bryan is a painter and book artist living in Flatrock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. At the moment, she is fascinated by icebergs.


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The Reanimation Library is a small, independent library based in Brooklyn. It serves artists, writers and other cultural archeologists.


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Jeff Peachey is the owner of a New York City-based studio for the conservation of books, and the inventor of conservation tools and machines. He regularly writes about books and tools on his blog.


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Emily Speed is a UK-based artist who works in sculpture, installation, drawing, performance and books. She conceives her books as part of larger art works. She founded Artists' Book Fair Liverpool.


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Laurence Fayard is a New York-based hand bookbinder.
She opened her own studio in 2009.


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