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.  He is the author of numerous zines and thirteen books, including Life and Limb (Soft Skull Press 2004) and Beach 90th (Swift Season Press 2009).  His writing has also appeared in Thrasher, Open City, the Portland Noir Anthology, Concrete Wave, Travel Oregon, The Normal School, Foulweather and others.  He is currently at work on a memoir about surfing in New York City.

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.  She’s a founding member of the legendary all-girl skate/surf artist collective Villa Villa Cola, and has  done animation work for film director Spike Jonze, Yo Gabba Gabba, and the all-female surf film Dear & Yonder.

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 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.

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.”

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.

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

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.

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.

Mia Nolting was born in Tokyo in 1983 and raised in Californina. She works as a freelance illustrator out of Portland, Oregon.  Check out her work at www.mianolting.com

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

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.

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.

Megan Kahrs (Treasurer) is a professional accountant specializing in nonprofits; she currently works at Portland Center Stage.  When not crunching numbers, she loves being outdoors and listening to reggae music.

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, self-published novel “The Faithful.”

Jered Bogli is a graphic designer, zine advocate, bike rider, skateboarder and gardener. He has a fondness for fine food and great coffee.  When not pursuing his own self-publishing and screenprinting projects, he works for a certain footwear company in Beaverton, Oregon.

Marilyn Zornado has taught bookbinding and calligraphy at the Oregon College of Art and Craft and the Art Institute. She is author of “Adventures in Penland” and co-proprietor of Fremont Garden Press.  In addition to organizing the annual Platform Animation Festival, she is the driving force behind the IPRC’s annual Text Ball.

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

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

Heather Watkins is a professional letterpress printer, bookbinder and visual artist with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Greg Tozian is the President of the Overland Agency, a Portland-based company specializing in digital advertising.  A former journalist, he has published several books, and is currently pursuing a new-found passion for self-published comics.

Dawn Andreas is a Project Manager at Blackbox Industries and an avid surfer.  As of 2010 she’ll be masterminding the IPRC’s exciting new chili cook-off benefit events.

Luna Prado is a Portland-based writer.  She loves anything by Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut and Barbara Kingsolver.

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.