Rosa Chang, an artist, art administrator, writer, and gardener, champions harmony between humanity and nature. Her art, inspired by natural elements, spans diverse mediums. Currently, she's passionate about sharing Korean/Asian traditional Indigo and Natural Dye processes, as well as traditional fiber art processes, to foster cultural exchanges among diverse communities. Her debut picture book, My Indigo World, published in May 2023, earned nominations from prestigious awards, including the 2023 New York Public Library Best Book, the 2024 NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book, the Best Children's Book of the Year 2024 Edition by Bank Street College of Education, and the 2024 Maryland's "Great Reads from Great Places" Library of Congress Children's Book Selection for the National Book Festival.

Mina Takahashi is the editor of Hand Papermaking. Formerly executive director of programs at Dieu Donné Papermill in New York, she directed artist residencies and publishing projects, curated exhibitions, and collaborated with artists in the studio. Trained originally in Japanese papermaking, she teaches and consults on the artistic and craft applications of hand papermaking across the country and internationally. She lives in upstate New York where she collaborates with artists in her papermaking studio, Round Top Paper.

Karen Kopacz is the designer of Hand Papermaking. She graduated from Columbia College with a BA in fine arts, minoring in fiction writing. For nearly 2 decades, Karen has worked and collaborated in the Twin Cities arts community as a designer, brand strategist, Web developer, and artist. In 2000, she founded Design for the Arts, partnering with organizations, businesses, and artists to develop and launch brands and creative initiatives. As director of online arts & literature magazine Mental Contagion (2000-2008), she was invited to be a panelist at the SXSW Interactive Festival for Fostering New Culture on the Internet.

Sophia Hotzler (she/her) is a papermaker, photographer, and crafter living in Minneapolis. She was first introduced to the skill of papermaking while attending the University of Manitoba, where she graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with honors. She teaches paper classes at the Avon Hills Folk School and co-hosts a handmade paper exchange program based in Minneapolis. When she’s not in the vat pulling sheets, she can be found printing digital photographs and making journals with her handmade paper.

Lisa (Switalski) Haque is an artist living and working in Miami, Florida; her work can be viewed at LISAHAQUE.COM. She was a Studio Collaborator and Production Manager at Dieu Donné, and a papermaker and bookbinder at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago, and has taught at Rutgers University, the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, and at a variety of other centers in the United States.

Marie Bannerot McInerney is a multidisciplinary studio artist and educator. Her site-responsive installations and discrete works in concrete, silk, handmade paper and canvas consider human agency within the framework of ecological systems, mystical thinking, and natural phenomena. She is a 2018 Charlotte Street Artist Award Fellow, a current resident at Studios Inc. and has exhibited extensively across the United States and abroad. Marie serves as associate professor in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Richard J. Baiano is the President and Owner of Childs Gallery in Boston, MA. He has served on the Executive Boards of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), and the Danforth Museum of Art. He also served on the steering committee for the Patron Program of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and recently finished a six year term as Chair of the Boston Chapter of Save Venice. Prior to joining Childs Gallery, Richard worked as an architect at GUND Partnership. His degrees in architecture include a BS from Clemson University and an MArch from Syracuse University. He resides in Boston and is an avid art collector, who has been engaged in the buying, selling, and appraising of American and European art for the past twenty-three years.

Steph Rue is an artist and papermaker based in Sacramento, CA. She received her MFA at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, and studied traditional book and papermaking on a Fulbright to Korea in 2015. Steph is co-founder of the Korean American Artist Collective and co-founder of Hanji Edition, a publisher of limited edition works made with Korean paper.

Lynn Sures is a recent Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, 2018-2020 President of North American Hand Papermakers, Founding Director of the Collegiate Paper Triennial, and guest editor of the 2016 Winter issue of Hand Papermaking magazine. Recent artist residencies were at Olorgesailie, Kenya; Museo della Carta (MCF) in Fabriano, Italy; and Museu Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain. Her art is in collections of the US Library of Congress, Yale University, and NY Public Library’s Schomburg Collection. http://www.lynnsures.com Instagram @lynnsures

Megan Singleton is a practicing artist, educator, and mother located in St. Louis, Missouri. The investigation of ecological relationships within society and the landscape is the basis of her work. As an interdisciplinary artist, she create works that resonate with the materiality and rhythms of the natural world. Her creative practice intertwines sculpture, handmade paper, found objects, photography, and books arts. She actively exhibits and was the recipient of the St. Louis Regional Arts Commision Artist Fellowship Grant, the Smelser-Vallion Visiting Artist Fellowship in Taos, MN and has participated in Artist Residencies across the US.

Kazuko Hioki is the Preservation Librarian at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library. She earned an M.I.L.S with a Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin, and was trained and employed as a conservator at various institutions, including the University of Kentucky Libraries, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. Before her career in conservation, she was a chemist at the Sumitomo Chemical Company in Osaka, having completed a Bachelor of Agriculture degree focused on Pesticide Chemistry from Kobe University. She has lectured and published widely on various topics related to conservation and preservation, ranging from sustainable environmental control and disaster preparedness to the physical characteristics of printed books and recycled papermaking in 18th -20th century Japan. More information about her research can be found here: http://works.bepress.com.

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Emily Duong is a paper artist, printmaker, and graphic designer currently based in New Jersey. Her works are known for their abstract subjects, which evoke a sense of infinite space and possibilities. She formerly served on the Committee at the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) as the Bulletin Editor.

Gretchen Schermerhorn is a printmaker & papermaker, and is the executive director of Southern Graphics Council International, the largest membership organization dedicated to the art of printmaking. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University and since then, she has completed artist residencies at The Women's Studio Workshop in New York, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper in Chicago, Seacourt Print Workshop in Northern Ireland, California State University and the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Florida and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Her prints, installations, and works on paper works have been exhibited around the country and internationally, and her work is part of the Montgomery County Public Art Trust, Anne Arundel Community College's print collection, and the Janet Turner Print Collection. She has received individual artist awards from both the Maryland State Arts Council and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. She has taught Printmaking and Papermaking workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, Snow Farm-New England Craft, Touchstone Center for Crafts, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, and Women's Studio Workshop, and at Universities such as Maryland Institute College of Art and Johns Hopkins.

Sanaz Haghani is an Iranian visual artist holding MFA with distinction in Art from the University of Georgia and BFA in Graphic Design from Sooreh University in Shiraz, Iran. She is adjunct professor at the Rowan Cabarrus Community College. Before joining RCCC, she worked as adjunct professor at the department of Printmaking and book arts, University of Georgia, and instructor of record in foundation drawing at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Haghani also worked as a graphic designer for eight years in Iran where she taught graphic design and drawing courses. She has presented her work across the United States, i.e. the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Missoula Art Museum, and she has exhibited internationally in multiple solo, group, and competitive exhibitions.  She has been one of the women artists in “Paper Routes – Women to Watch 2020” who was featured in “Voyage Atl,” “The Atlantan,” “Shutout Atlanta,” “The Hand Magazine,” “College Book Art Association,” “Mid-American Print Council Journal,” and “Burnaway” magazines.

Amanda Degener is co-founder of Hand Papermaking magazine and produces sculpture and artist books using handmade paper. She received an MFA in sculpture at Yale School of Art and a BA at Bennington College. Amanda travels internationally to show her artwork and conduct lectures and workshops. You can learn more about her work at http://amandadegener.com/.

Michael Durgin co-founded Hand Papermaking with Amanda Degener in 1986 and served as its editor for 18 years. He was first exposed to making paper by hand in 1980 and has studied and been deeply engaged in papermaking and book arts ever since. For the last few years, he has sold books for charities in Beijing, Silver Spring (Maryland), and Frankfurt (Germany), where he now lives. He was the guest editor of a special issue of Hand Papermaking (Winter 2014) devoted to China.