Independent Publishing Resource Center

Justin Hocking was hired as the IPRC’s Executive Director in the fall of 2006. He has an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University, where he also taught as an instructor of writing and literature. Before coming to the IPRC, he worked in the New York City publishing industry, and continues to acquire and edit countercultural books for Citadel Underground press. He is a frequent contributor to Thrasher magazine and the author of thirteen books and numerous zines about skateboarding.

AnnMarie O’Malley is the IPRC Outreach Coordinator and Program Coordinator. Ms. O’Malley has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Social Work, and she is currently working on a collection of narrative essays. Her favorite things in life are good books, clean white pages and her trusty bicycle. She has been making and collaborating on zines since she was 15 years old.

(shown here with the IPRC Zine Librarian, Marc Parker)

Lori D is the IPRC Membership Coordinator.  She makes many things by hand: film animations, zines, paintings, books and vegetable gardens.  One of the founding members of the legendary all-girl skate/surf artist collective Villa Villa Cola, she is currently at work creating animations for the upcoming surf film Dear & Beyond.

Marc Parker is the IPRC’s beloved Zine Librarian.  He wrote his first zine in 1992. Zines about asthma, chess, Russian authors, Saved by the Bell, mangos, call centers, and, especially, zines about Marc Parker–he’s made a load of them. Now he does a comic called Big F*#%ing Deal. It is adorable.

Alex Wrekk has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2003. She has been involved with independent publishing for over a decade and has published her zine, Brainscan, since 1997 as well as many other projects along the way. Alex runs Small World Buttons and enjoys creative re-use and a good beer.

Chiara Caballero hails from Tucson, Arizona where arid heat causes one to partake almost guiltlessly in “manana syndrome.” Although that may be the case, she self-published her art and comics mag, Ornithopter, for five years sending it to bookstores and distributors in other states and tabling at comic book conventions like the San Diego Comic Con and Ape Con in San Francisco. One of the highlights of self-publishing came when Ornithopter was placed in the Bud Plant Comic Art catalog. She started volunteering at the IPRC in February of this year (2008) and loves it.

Jen Erickson was first introduced to the world of zines while working on her degree in Human Development at Prescott College. Jen moved from Minneapolis to Portland in 2007, and currently writes and produces stories for the PM news at KBOO. She also owns a vending machine at Jace Gace in SW Portland where she sells 1 1/2’ zines, native wildflower seeds, and found objects. Jen began staffing Open Hours at IPRC in 2008.

Katy Meegan is a volunteer at the IPRC. She studied and worked at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, honing her skills in bookbinding, papermaking and printmaking. She is also a cofounder of TUP zine and KeeganMeegan press and bindery.

Keegan Wenkman is the founder of www.onefootinfront.com, and a weekly volunteer at the IPRC. He is also a cofounder of TUP zine and KeeganMeegan press and bindery.

Lillian Karabaic had her life saved by zines in high school, and still publishes Nebulous Zine and AnomaLily. Prior to moving to Portland to live out her dream of volunteering for the IPRC, she helped found the now-defunct Queen City Zine Library. She likes bicycles so much that she gets paid to talk about how great they are.

Marc de Giere has been a member since 2006 and began staffing in 2007. He is active in many forms of media, including radio, video, web design and good, old hands-on crafts. He also helps organize the Free School and the recent Grassroots Media Camp.

Patrick Devine has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2006 and hosts Comics & Coffee group. He still manages to find time to staff Tuesday Open Hours and self-publish mini-comics. What sort of mischief will he find next?

Rebecca James is currently the Letterpress Print Shop Manager. She a graphic design stiff by day, but otherwise lives for pursuing her many obsessions including letterpress, book arts, silkscreen and painting. She currently enjoys dumpster-diving in corporate trash to salvage materials which she uses to make bike-messenger bags: Upcycled Corporate Garbage (www.arcana27.com).

Shawn Granton has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2001 and is currently staffing Wednesday Open Hours. He has been self-publishing for a decade, primarily his own comic, Ten Foot Rule. Shawn also edits the Zinester’s Guide to Portland and leads bicycle and walking tours under the auspices of the Urban Adventure League.

Kjerstin Johnson is a writer and self-publisher who has also worked with B-Word and Counterpunch.  Her writing has appeared in Bitch magazine.

Sarah Mirk is a writer and cartoonist who works as a freelancer for the Portland Mercury.

Alex Wrekk has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2003. She has been involved with independent publishing for over a decade and has published her zine, Brainscan, since 1997 as well as many other projects along the way. Alex runs Small World Buttons and enjoys creative re-use and a good beer.

AnnMarie O’Malley is the IPRC Outreach Coordinator. Ms. O’Malley has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Social Work, and she is currently working on a collection of narrative essays. Her favorite things in life are good books, clean white pages and her trusty bicycle. She has been making and collaborating on zines since she was 15 years old.

Ayleen Crotty is a communications and marketing graphic designer for supported bike events. She is the director of the bike film festival Filmed by Bike, a host on the KBOO Bike Show and the editor of ORbike.com. Ayleen got her start in communications with a one-page fact sheet (before she knew it was a zine) in 1991.

Dan Hack has been around the IPRC since the very earliest days, teaching mimeograph and other awesomely archaic printing methods. He is a mining engineer and the creator of the serialized novel “The Faithful.”

Debbie West is a multi-media artist and creative and life coach. She is committed to helping other artists on their journeys and loves facilitating creative groups. Debbie works in linoleum and woodblock printmaking and prints on letterpress at the IPRC.

Gretchin Lair is a creative advocate who founded Scarlet Star Studios
(www.scarletstarstudios.com) in 2004 to encourage people to make stuff. She joined the Board of Trillium Artisans in 2007 to help increase the revenue and support of independent artisans in Portland.

Gillian Beck picked up her first Print Gocco at a thrift shop in Japan six years ago and has been fuelling the paper-correspondence movement ever since. Check out some examples of her work at halfempty.etsy.com.

Iris Porter returns back to Portland from Nova Scotia to teach us what she’s learned about self-publishing and print arts. She has self published DIYinPDX and DIYinHFX, two books documenting the do-it-yourselfers of Portland and Halifax. Fun fact: she also letterpress printed for the first time at the IPRC back in 2001.

Jake Anderson is the mastermind and impresario behind the Tape Mountain empire. Tape Mountain is perhaps the only record label that prints CD covers and promotional calendars by mimeo.

Jordan Rein moved to Portland to attend Lewis and Clark College, where he studied graphic arts. He is concurrently a designer at a local firm and an avid world-traveler with an inquiring eye towards all things cutting-edge in the industry.

Jovencio de la Paz in an artist working in Portland, Oregon. His work focuses on the rich history of Eastern bookforms as a way to explore contemporary issues of identity politics. www.jovenciodelapaz.com

Justin Hocking was hired as the IPRC’s Executive Director in the fall of 2006. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University, where he also taught as an instructor of writing and literature. Before coming to the IPRC, he worked in the New York City publishing industry, and continues to acquire and edit countercultural books for Citadel Underground press. He is a frequent contributor to Thrasher magazine and the author of thirteen books about skateboarding.

Katy Meegan is a volunteer at the IPRC. She studied and worked at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, honing her skills in bookbinding, papermaking and printmaking. She is also a cofounder of TUP zine and KeeganMeegan press and bindery.

Keegan Wenkman is the founder of www.onefootinfront.com, and a weekly volunteer at the IPRC. He is also a cofounder of TUP zine and KeeganMeegan press and bindery.

Ken Walker aka Carolina Ken is an experienced teacher in papermaking, book arts, & printmaking with a MFA in printmaking and book arts from the University of Iowa (2004). He is from Louisiana and moved to Oregon in 1980 from South Carolina to surf. Ken has been a carpenter for 30+ years.

Kohel Haver is a lawyer and arts advocate specializing in copyright and publishing law. He is also proud to be among the founders of the IPRC and is a Zine author.

Marc de Giere has been a member since 2006 and began staffing in 2007. He is active in many forms of media, including radio, video, web design and good, old hands-on crafts. He also helps organize the Free School and the recent Grassroots Media Camp.

Marc Parker wrote his first zine in 1992. Zines about asthma, chess, and Russian authors, Saved by the Bell, mangos, call centers, and, especially, zines about Marc Parker. He’s made a load of them. Now he does a comic called Big Fucking Deal. It is adorable. Currently Marc is IPRC’s Zine Librarian.

Marilyn Zornado is author of “Adventures in Penland” and co-proprietor of Fremont Garden Press. She has taught bookbinding and calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft.

Mark Searcy before relocating to Portland, co-owned and operated Art Prostitute, the award winning, internationally distributed art and design publication, in addition to teaching design at the University of North Texas and Texas A&M-Commerce. Currently Mark is the Art Director at the Portland Mercury.

Mette Hornung Rankin, a half Dane, is a graphic designer by day and sleeper by night, with a penchant for pickled herring. Formally trained in all things print and informally entranced by all things design.

Moe Bowstern has been a member of the IPRC since its founding. The editor of Xtra Tuf zine, she is the 2007 winner of the Lilla Jewel Award for Xtra Tuf #5; the Strike Issue

Nickey Robare became trapped in the world of zines, along with punk rock and weird clothes, at the tender age of thirteen. Due to a short attention span, she dabbles in as many activities as possible, including dancing, sewing, baking, and filmmaking. She has been volunteering at the IPRC since 2004.

Philip Cheaney has been involved with the IPRC since the spring of 2005 and is a weekly volunteer in the print shop. When not at the IPRC he tries to manage a small avalanche of personal and community projects (www.kitchensinkpdx.com) and rides his bike.

Polly Bresnick was an assistant editor and Spanish/English translator for McSweeney’s most recent Voice of Witness book, Underground America. Her poetry has been published in Sui Generis and Verse Noire, and she is currently seeking a publisher for a collection of folklore and poetry for children. She also loves to needlepoint.

Rebecca Gilbert is a founding member of the IPRC and a weekly volunteer in the print shop. She is also a worker-owner at Stumptown Printers, a small offset and letterpress shop in Portland, Oregon. Rebecca studied graphic design and book arts at PNCA & OCAC and creates the zine Napcore.

Shannon Buck has dedicated herself to printmaking for over five years. You can usually find her in the printroom at the IPRC and she will make you fall in love with linoleum blocks. You can find her work at loadedhipspress.com and she is a Print Shop supervisor on Thursdays at the IPRC.

Shu-Ju Wang has been making prints and artist’s books with the Print Gocco since 1999. Her work can be seen at Print Arts Northwest, the Multnomah County Central Library’s John Wilson Special Collections and online at www.fingerstothebone.com.

Sky Amann has been creating books for then years, with a special interest in binding techniques and comics. She has a BA from University of Oregon with a focus in bookbinding

Thomas King has lived all over the country but wound up in Portland to be near family. Along the way he has earned his MFA in creative writing from Eastern Washington University, worked on the editorial staffs of The Believer and Willow Springs magazines, and published scattered stories and interviews. He’s currently (still?) at work on his first novel.

Barbara Tetenbaum is Associate Professor and Department Head of Book Arts at Oregon College of Art & Craft in Portland, Oregon. She has been producing limited edition artist books since 1979 under the imprint Triangular Press. Her work is held in collections in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, and Tibet. She has a B.S. in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.F.A. in Printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jered Bogli is a graphic designer, zine advocate, bike rider, skateboarder and gardener. He has a fondness for fine food and great coffee. His belief system is based on hypocrisy and irony.

Marilyn Zornado has taught bookbinding and calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She is author of “Adventures in Penland” and co-proprietor of Fremont Garden Press.

Mary Kay West (Board Chair) is a vice president at Norris, Beggs, and Simpson commercial real estate agency. She also loves to write.

Ben Kates is a professional educator and an experimental musician.  Along with the IPRC, he volunteers with the Creative Music Guild.

Dan Hack (Secretary) has been around the IPRC since the very earliest days, teaching mimeograph and other awesomely archaic printing methods. He is a mining engineer and the creator of the serialized novel “The Faithful.”

Meg Storey is an editor at Tin House Books.  

Megan Kahrs (Treasurer) works as an accountant at Portland Center Stage.

Julie Shapiro is Managing Director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival from Chicago Public Radio. Before moving to Chicago, Shapiro worked at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, and while living in North Carolina produced Storylines Southeast, a public radio series about literature from that region. She makes audio art for public presentation, runs a local listening series called LISSENUP and can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves.

Chloe Eudaly is the proprietress of Reading Frenzy and Show & Tell Press, and one of our co-founders. A former board member, she has sporadically served on our advisory committee since 2001 when print took a back seat to parenting. She currently serves on the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition, where she strives to bring recognition from the arts establishment to grassroots and DIY organizations.

Eleanor Whitney is a media and art educator, zine publisher, print maker and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She co-edits the online, feminist art journal riffrag.org, plays in the band Perils and believes in the power of independent media to empower and inspire young people to change their world for the better.