I’m the printmaker behind the press(es) at radical emprints.

I’m a queer letterpress printer, poet, and art worker living in unceded Wabanaki territory / Portland, Maine. I started to learn about letterpress printing and grassroots organizing in 2012, and spent nine years as a member-leader at the Southern Maine Workers’ Center. I joined the community printshop Pickwick Independent Press in 2016, where I found my life’s work at the intersection of printmaking and organizing. In 2023 I launched Lead & Roses: cards for organizers, and I continue printing to support the work of collective liberation in as many ways as I can.

I still do fundraising training with movement organizations as a facilitator with Resource Organizing Project, but now printmaking & poetry are also a big part of my contributions to the movement for collective liberation.

THE PRESS(ES)!
Since 2015-ish, I have been deeply grateful to get to print most of my work on a Vandercook 4 at Pickwick Independent Press. In 2023, with help from some press-moving angels (including David Wolfe, my first letterpress teacher), I acquired my own Heidelberg Windmill, which has allowed me to start printing in bigger quantities — and which is why I’m finally launching a wholesale website!

SOME SOCIAL LOCATING…
I am a white queer femme, a cis woman, and an art worker. I am based in the unceded Wabanaki territory known as Portland, Maine. And it’s important to me to ground my work & writing in my identity as a worker under capitalism.

PRINT SALES & REDISTRIBUTION
Since I started selling prints, I have had a practice of redistributing a portion of my printmaking income as sustaining donations to a collection of movement organizations locally & nationally, as well as contributing to mutual aid efforts & bail funds. I also regularly create fundraising prints for specific causes, including in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Check out these orgs that radical emprints has supported & continues to support.