The editor and publisher of Stony Run Press is Risa Bear. She farms one acre in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She retired in 2009 after twenty years at the University of Oregon and holds the M.A. in English and M.S. in Arts Management. She edited and compiled the pioneering e-text website, Renascence Editions, and her primary blogsite is A Way to Live, http://risashome.blogspot.com. You may read her post-apocalyptic trilogy, Starvation Ridge, in blovel form at http://starvationridge.blogspot.com.