I am a printer/publisher of limited editions, publication designer, and Professor of Art at Washington University in Saint Louis.

I began working with books in the late 1970s in Madison, Wisconsin, and though I was not a student of Walter Hamady’s at the University of Wisconsin, Walter was a great influence on my decision to pursue making paper and books by hand. It was in Madison that I met Steve Miller, who had been a student of Walter’s, and I learned papermaking and letterpress printing from Steve. In Madison I made paper with Steve for some of the first Red Ozier Press editions. In 1978 I moved to Conway, Massachusetts to study landscape design at the Conway School of Landscape Design, and when the one year program finished I moved to New York City to pursue professional work in landscape architecture. Miller moved to New York once I had secured a loft for the press, and soon we were making paper and books in our loft, first on Warren Street, then later on West 25th Street. Red Ozier published in New York for almost 10 years and when we closed our doors in 1988 our archive was purchased for the permanent collection of the New York Public Library.

In 1988 I moved to New Haven to work at Yale University Press as production editor for art books, working directly with editor Judy Metro. I worked at Yale Press until 1993 and designed and oversaw production on several museum catalogues and monographs. During that time I also designed books for Princeton Architectural Press, and continued printing limited editions from my old barn studio in Connecticut. I was fortunate enough to teach for three years in the Yale School of Design as lecturer in typography.

In 1993 I moved to Penland, North Carolina, to serve as Executive Director of the Penland School of Crafts, one of the oldest independent craft programs in the country. During this time we built a new glass studio and accessible housing, improved the water system, and instituted adventurous new programs for the local schools in Mitchell, County.