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.

Alleson Goldfinger is a designer and a baker and a designer of baked goods. She collects spray paint colors, cassette tapes, and random adventures.

Blue Crow has lived in Portland for over 6 years and is an editor of Stumptown Underground. You also may know her from the Portland Zine Symposium and the Stumptown Comics Festival. Blue volunteers on Mondays and regularly offers fruit to those in the workroom.

During the (week) day, Brian Stimson likes to play journalist to help pay the bills. He’s a staff writer for Portland’s African American weekly, The Skanner News, and has won several national awards for his reporting. He’s just that awesome. By night, he is a sometimes comic artist and writer who recently self-published “Near Misses: How the 38^th President Nearly Became Relevant” along with two other artists. He’s currently working on an untitled science fiction comic and (occasionally) web publishes funnies under the name Stim Brimley. When he’s not drawing, Stimson enjoys downhill skiing, playing video/board games and dressing in suits to intimidate everyone around him. But don’t worry, he’ll troubleshoot any computer-related problem with optimistic gusto.

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.

Cynthia Rodriguez is a printmaker and avid supporter of self-publication.

Delphine Bedient started volunteering at the IPRC in 2009 and now coordinates the Zine of the Month Club. She has been publishing her zine, Peep, since 2008. When she is not at the IPRC she busses tables at a restaurant, reads books in bars, and takes lots of walks. She likes writing in cursive, wearing sunglasses, and listening to cassette tapes. http://mademoiselledelphine.blogspot.com

B.T. Livermore is a freelance illustrator, printmaker, and self-published comics artist. As much as he loves creating content for the inside of his books, he probably enjoys the final process of assembling each book even more. His illustrations appear regularly in the Portland Mercury and his comic series “The Life and Times of Baby Otto Zeplin,” as well as his other books, are always available at Reading Frenzy. If you’d like to learn more about BT, or contact him directly, please feel free to do so through his blog at www.radrobot.org.

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.”

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.

Jen Kovach is an art school drop out turned community art organizer. She first learned screen printing at E.C.I.A.D in Vancouver, BC in the early 90′s and continued her studies later in the Advanced Textile Program at Capilano College.She has since spearheaded and participated in many community art projects and festivals such as The Seamripper Craft Collective, Gaylord, Signal & Noise and Under The Volcano. She is currently a screen print instructor at the I.P.R.C. in Portland, OR

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.

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.

Sarah Wiebenson, CPA (inactive), (Treasurer) is the Fixed Asset Accountant for Portland State University. When she's not crunching numbers, she tap dances, eats vegan food, plays a variety of musical instruments, and makes things out of fused glass.

Mary Kay West (Board Chair) is a vice president at Norris, Beggs, and Simpson commercial real estate agency. An avid writer, her work has appeared in the Voice Catcher anthology and in self-produced zines.

Lisa Marshall (Vice Chair) is the Communications Manager at Raphael House of Portland by day and a graphic designer by night. She has a degree in English Lit from Lewis & Clark and in 2011 she graduated from the poetry track of the IPRC's Certificate Program.

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

Montea Robinson has a BFA in Experimental Film Production from the Conservatory Of Theater Arts and Film at SUNY Purchase. She currently works in the Content Services Department at Wieden + Kennedy, and as an assistant instructor with the Caldera Arts Program in film and creative writing.

Montea is a student in the fiction/nonfiction certificate program at the IPRC, and is in the process of self publishing a collection of creative nonfiction essays about migration, growing up in Harlem and moving to Portland.

Colin Meloy is the lead singer of The Decemberists and a longtime supporter of the IPRC. Colin made his debut as a children's writer with Wildwood, illustrated by wife, Carson Ellis. The second novel in the series is Under Wildwood, published in 2012. Watch Colin Meloy give NPR a tour of the old IPRC space here.

Carson Ellis is a Portland-based illustrator, providing art for such bestselling books as The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and Wildwood by Colin Meloy. Additionally, she is the illustrator-in-residence for the the band, The Decemberists, and has created art for their album covers, t-shirts, websites, posters, and stage sets. She's a longtime supporter of the IPRC, and each fall she teaches a free twelve-session drawing workshop for teenagers at the Portland Art Museum.

Arthur Bradford is an American author and a director. He has had a book of short stories published, Dogwalker and a children's book, "Benny's Brigade". He has won an O. Henry Award and has had his stories published in Esquire, McSweeneys, Zoetrope, Dazed & Confused, Tin House, and BOMB. He was a contributor to the McSweeney's publication The Future Dictionary of America. He was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and a James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Bradford is also the director of 6 Days to Air, a documentary that depicts the making of an episode of South Park, which premiered on Comedy Central on October 9, 2011. It was nominated for an emmy award in the outstanding non-fiction special category. He has directed music videos for bands such as State Radio and The Dandy Warhols.

Kohel Haver is a veteran zinester, and an attorney specializing in creative and intellectual property rights. As one of the founding members of the IPRC, he helped the Center achieve its 501(C)3 status. You can find more information about Kohel and his work at www.smhllaw.com.

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.

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Trinie Dalton has authored, edited, and/or curated six books. Those books include Wide Eyed (Akashic), Dear New Girl or Whatever Your Name Is (McSweeney's: co-edited with Eli Horowitz and Lisa Wagner), Mythtym (Picturebox), Sweet Tomb (Madras Press) and Baby Geisha (Two Dollar Radio). Trinie’s books alternate between art projects and fiction, and sometimes combine the two. She teaches fiction and critical writing at USC, SVA and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Visit her at sweettomb.com .

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B. Frayn Masters is the Host and Executive Producer of Back Fence PDX. Starting Fall of 2012 Frayn is beyond excited to be the local producer for The Moth StorySLAM. She also produces, creates and performs in comedic videos and sketches, and was lucky enough to be a guest performer in w00stock 2.1, which starred the super funny Wil Wheaton, Adam Savage, and Paul & Storm. Samples of her literary leanings can be found in Airplane Reading, MonkeyBicycle 6, Hobart, SPORK and Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists. Writing the cell phones games for the Twilight movie series totally warped her viewpoint on wolves. She puts most of the monies in her bank account as a scriptwriter, in addition to writing for various magazines. She swoons for good stories. [Note to self: practice swooning. Also, look up its meaning.]

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Mike Nichols is a printing industry professional with a degree in Communications and Graphic Arts.

Bryan Tosh is a Portland area videographer and filmmaker with a focus in writing, editing, and cinematography. Bryan has worked on a wide variety of projects from independent films & documentaries to government videos & NFL Films. After 10 years in the military and 3 years in freelance video production, Bryan found his way back to his roots in Portland, Oregon. He is a firm believer in being a lifetime student and continues his education in filmmaking at the Art Institute of Portland under mentors like Courtney Hermann, Jay Cornelius and Kyle Aldrich.