June 21, 2007

J.W. Marshall is co-owner of Open Books, a poetry-only bookstore in Seattle. He has published poetry in Alaska Quarterly Review, Cranky, Field, and other magazines. His two chapbooks, Taken With (2005) and Blue Mouth (2001), published by Wood Works, were finalists for a Washington State Book Award in their respective years.

By turns poet, teacher, performer, playwright, musician, instrument-maker, artist, editor, publisher, grassroots arts activist, worker on the land, and shade-tree mechanic, Paul Hunter for the past twelve years has produced fine letterpress books under the imprint of Wood Works—currently including 23 books and 52 broadsides. His poems have appeared in Alaska Fisherman’s Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bloomsbury Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Raven Chronicles, and The Southern Review, as well as in three full-length books and several chapbooks. Recipient of the 1998 Pym Cup and the 1999 Nelson Bentley Award, he lives and works in Seattle. His collection of farming poems, Breaking Ground, from Silverfish Review Press, was reviewed in the New York Times and is a recipient of the 2004 Washington State Book Award. A second volume of farming poems published in May is entitled Ripening.