Ellie Mathews is a partner with her husband in The North Press in Port Townsend. She spends much of her time designing and printing poetry broadsides, sometimes for Copper Canyon Press, and is herself a published poet. But there is much more to the Ellie Mathews story than poetry. She holds a degree in geography from the University of Washington, worked in design and software development, and is the author of four books. She has also won cooking and writing awards including the Milkweed Prize, a grant from the Seattle Artists Program, a Fishtrap Fellowship, and the Pillsbury Bake-Off grand prize (luck seasoned with a pinch of creativity).