Nicholas James Whittington is a poet, scholar, educator, editor, printer, and publisher, currently pursuing a PhD in the Creative/Critical concentration in the Literature department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he teaches Creative Writing and other subjects. He holds an MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University, edits and publishes the annual AMERARCANA and the occasional small book under the Bird & Beckett imprint, as well the Slug.docs series at UCSC, and does letterpress printing and design work at Impart Ink, an errant studio.