I've been a publisher since 1975, starting with my own artist's books and small press literary books. I learned letterpress printing at the Women's Graphic Center in Los Angeles and started my own press under the imprint Paradise Press in 1978. I received two National Endowment for the Arts Small Press Grants in the 1980s. I was studio director at the Women's Graphic Center and taught at Otis Art Institute and Scripps College Press in the Los Angeles area.