Books and book arts are not only a professional but also they are a personal interest of mine. My interest in zines resulted in "Some Zines", the first academic exhibition in the United States of these self-published periodicals (1992). “Some Zines” received extensive national media coverage and local notoriety. In 1996, I curated a second zine exhibition devoted exclusively to “artists’ zines.” My facsimile guest book, Guests, from first zine exhibition, was selected as one of the Best Western Books by the Rounce & Coffin Club of California and toured the United States in 1994. Previously, I had edited and co-designed Papa!, a limited, case bound edition of the Hemingway play by Pulitzer Prize winner John DeGroot. Papa! was selected as one of the best 100 American books of 1989 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Life in the Upper Country, the diary of Evelyn Amos, was originally written on scraps of paper bags, old envelopes--anything Evelyn Amos could find to write about important events in a charming and poignant diary that unwittingly chronicles the death of the family farm in America. I edited and designed two editions of The Amos Diary: a casebound, limited edition with various artifacts, including lupine blooms collected from the property once farmed by the Amos family, family photographs and facsimile pages from the original, handwritten diary. The second edition is a paperback, trade edition. Prior to working on the Amos diary, I had experimented in creating a book that utilized the volvelle (or movable wheel) format. This was Jim Elgin's PTV: Poetry Television, a collection of poems by my student, Jim Elgin. In 1999, I wrote, edited, designed and published a limited edition of poems about James Castle from interviews I had with the self-taught Idaho artist's sole surviving sister, Julia. (See also my 2004 biography of Castle, described in the RESEARCH section of my web site.) More recently (2002), participating in an assignment I gave my graduate Book Arts class, I produced an edition of TORTILLAS: A [Glow-in-the-Dark] Book of Miracles. In the winter, spring, and summer (2004/2005) I wrote, edited, designed, and constructed my most ambitious artists' book to-date, POSTCARD FROM ALBANIA. However, at least as gratifying was the book I completed in spring and summer 2006: POLYGAMYLAND. It is in a format I had never utilized (accordion fold--approximately 20 feet long) and makes use of the Deseret Alphabet. Most recently (2007) I created MICHAEL B.--A FINDING, and this title is now, of course, my favorite. Cover and title page.