School of Visual Concepts Seattle

J.W. Marshall/ Bonnie Thompson/ Jules Remedios Faye

J.W. Marshall, along with his wife Christine Deavel, owns and operates Open Books, a poetry-only bookstore in Seattle. His first poetry collection, Meaning A Cloud, won the 2007 Field Poetry Prize and was published in 2008 by Oberlin College Press. Poems of his have been published most recently, or are forthcoming, in Field, Margie, Raven Chronicles, Seattle Review, Talisman, and other magazines. He has an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Bonnie Thompson Norman lives in Seattle where she works full-time as a hand bookbinder in a large commercial bindery. She has a letterpress printing and book arts studio at home where she teaches classes. In her spare time she makes books under her own imprint, Windowpane Press.

Jules Remedios Faye is the proprietrix of Stern & Faye Printers in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. She began printing in 1976 and started publishing fine press books and prints in 1992 with her late husband, C. Christopher Stern. Her work has won numerous awards and is held in several major special collections and private libraries. She is currently adjunct book arts instructor at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.