Bill Ritchie is an artist, teacher and writer. Currently he lives with his wife, Lynda, in Seattle, Washington. He was a college professor, teaching fine art printmaking until he embarked on a private mission to find the "Perfect Studios." He found it in an imaginary place he named "Emeralda" and began designing a kind of cyber-craft for letting other people join him in his own kind printmaking world, where prints are the ancestors of all media arts.