Erin Zona is an artist, curator, and arts administrator with two decades of experience in artist’s book publishing, education, archival work, and nonprofit leadership. She is currently the Curator of the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Book Collection at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. From 2017–2024, Zona served as Co-Executive Director of Women’s Studio Workshop (WSW) in Rosendale, NY. During her tenure at WSW, she advanced cultural and fundraising campaigns that expanded the organization’s philosophy of gender and developed its onsite archive into a dynamic research space. As director of WSW’s publishing imprint, she oversaw the production of more than 27 new artist’s book titles and represented over 200 artists from the organization’s publishing history, placing artists' books in hundreds of collections across the United States.

Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Department of Information Studies, UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. Recent work includes Visualization and Interpretation (MIT Press, 2020), and Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press 2020), Digital Humanities 101: An introduction to Digital Methods (Routledge, 2021). Her publication, Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chicago Press, 2022), documents the intellectual history of knowledge about the invention and spread of the alphabet. Her most recent publication, Affluvia: The toxic off-gassing of affluent culture was published by The Bridge in May 2025. Her artist’s books are represented in museum and library special collections throughout North America and elsewhere and were the subject of a travelling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, in 2012-2014. The Century of Artists’ Books, published by Granary Books in 1994, remains a definitive and classic text in the field.

Alicia Bailey is owner/director of Abecedarian Artists Books in Denver, Colorado. Alicia acts as an independent curator/juror, instructor/mentor and regional events coordinator in the book arts. In her studio work, she has focused on book and box arts since the mid-nineties, producing box and artists’ book works. Her work has been featured in dozens of solo and group exhibits internationally and is held in numerous public, private and special collections worldwide. An archive of her work is under development at University of Denver Penrose Library Special Collections.