ABOUT Port of Saints Bookbuilders: Our name is taken from the title of William S. Burroughs's novel, a novel that re-visions American history. His ability to see alternative futures prompts our own small attempt to re-vision the world of publishing. Each of us brings our own variation on this hope to Port of Saints, and on the odd chance you'd like to know a bit about the humans who stevedore the docks and warehouses of this port, here are our little bios.

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Jennifer Culik owns and operates Greenroom Press. Her design work won the Midwest Independent Publishers' Association award for "Best Poetry Book" in 1998, and she has done equally beautiful work for university publications. Jenny's wizardry with electronic pre-press makes everything else possible. For an understated description of her work, click here.
          While Jenny's techno-savvy is necessary to Port of Saints, it is really her experience as a published scholar (oddly wonderful work on relations between mathematics and literature) and creative writer that shapes her design work. Authors find their work's vision embodied in the individual designs that she creates.

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Joseph K. LaDuke has worked as a curriculum developer, writing teacher, web designer, and technical writer. His fiction appears in [sic},the University of Detroit Mercy arts journal, and he was the featured author of Howling Wolf #7. His graduate work has been at Columbia College Chicago's MFA Creative Writing Program. For even more information about our plain-spoken pragmatist, click here.

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Hugh Culik serves as Director, Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Detroit Mercy. A published author (Berkeley/Jove), he has founded a variety of publications, re-opened the university's press, created a new degree in "Electronic Critique" and served as department chair. But most of all he passionately believes that the dangers, pleasures, and craft of genuine writing separate us from the other species that inhabit the planet. His students have gone on to graduate work at places such as Indiana University, NYU, the American Film Institute, USC, RPI, Arizona, and other alphabetically impressive schools. For too much information about Hugh, click here.