Richard Stephens is a contemplative artist who takes from real life and values people’s stories, and his artist book based on Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried will be shown at the Northampton Book Fair this year, his fourth year exhibiting. The book features responses from veterans when asked what they carried with them during their time of service, and is hand-bound and made with letterpress with great care.

Drawing from his imagination, Michael Kuch portrays a world both fantastic & familiar in his books, prints, and paintings from his Double Elephant Press.

We are excited to welcome Francisco Aguirre-Ghiso, our new Marketing and Communications Intern. Francisco is a University of Massachusetts, Amherst junior, majoring in journalism and English, and he also serves as assistant arts editor at The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper. That mix says a lot before the work even begins. It points to someone who understands deadlines, cares about language, pays attention to culture, and knows how to shape a story so readers want to k