BARBARA HENRY is a printmaker and typographer, trained at the University of Iowa. She developed a love of nineteenth-century display type while printing with the exceptional collections of Bowne & Co., Stationers, at the South Street Seaport Museum in Manhattan, where she has worked for the last nineteen years.

Beginning with A Specimen Book of Nineteenth-Century Printing Types, Borders, Ornaments and Cuts in 1985, she has printed many book and broadside projects for the Museum, including A Rustic Tea (a collection of traditional recipes decorated in the Artistic Style), nineteenth-century childrens books, and literary classics (such as Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, with wood engravings by John DePol).

Barbara Henry is proprietor of Harismus Press, publishing poetry and illustrated books most recently Lynd Wards' Last Unfinished Wordless Novel, printed from a collection of unpublished woodblocks. With volunteers at Bowne & Co., she is presently printing a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson. She has exhibited widely, lectured, and conducted workshops at the Smithsonian, Rutgers, and the Center for Book Arts in New York.

GEORGE ELLA LYON is an award-winning Kentucky literary figure, whose books, readings, and workshops have been widely enjoyed. She has published two volumes of poetry, nineteen picture books, four novels for young readers, an adult novel, and an autobiography. Recognition for her work includes Appalachian Book of the Year (Catalpa), Publishers' Weekly's Best Book of the Year (Who Came Down That Road?), the Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Basket and One Lucky Girl), the Golden Kite Award (Borrowed Children), and the New York Public Library's Best Books for Teens Award (Where Im From, Where Poems Come From).

She has been Writer-in-Residence at Centre College and a visiting author in hundreds of schools. She had taught at the Hindman Settlement School's Appalachian Writers Workshop and given workshops in Germany, as well. She has also taught at the University of Arkansas, Indiana University, Transylvania University, and the University of Kentucky. Ms. Lyon's work appears in the PBS series, "The United States of Poetry" and her novel, With a Hammer For My Heart, was featured in Borders Bookstores' "Original Voices" Series.