HELLO THERE. I've been making zines for a good few years now. Zines are self-published, often handmade publications of various kinds. They can look like and be about anything at all. Mine have been small books of poetry, first-person narratives, and collections of interviews ... and of course there's my eccentric serial zine about language, The La-La Theory. My involvement with this community means a great deal to me. The people involved with DIY publishing tend to support each other in a way that feels really nice, but they're also honest and no-nonsense.

My zines live in the collections of public and academic libraries and infoshops around the world, and my found poetry zine, Word Math, was featured in a 2004 exhibit of underground art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. They are sold by a number of distros (zine distributors), including Parcell Press and Microcosm, and independent bookstores, including Bluestockings, a radical bookstore in New York; Mew Gallery and Boutique in Philadelphia; the Sticky Institute in Melbourne, Australia; Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago; and Under the Table in Los Angeles. I know they're in lots of other places too because people keep emailing me to say, "I got your zine at the such-and-such store," and it's usually a place I've never heard of. I guess their buyers get stuff from distros or something. Well, however the zines get there it's cool with me. Give these places your business, friends!