Maple House Fellowships

Maple House Fellowships are an opportunity for young printers to work at Sutton Hoo Press and learn the craft and trade of literary fine press printing, book design, and editing. Fellows assist the director with SHP projects and shop management, and earn time at the press to produce their own projects. They are tutored as they work and introduced to other members of the book community. Fellows take residence at the press and are sometimes offered a small stipend. Prospective fellows would be familiar with the press, its publications and mission, and would have pre-fellowship experience working in letterpress. There is no application process. After Fall 2004, the Maple House Fellowship will be called the Alpenhouse Fellowship as the press takes up its new location in the woods of the Stockton Valley in Minnesota.

Zachary Cody Lee Carlsen was the 2004 Maple House Fellow and the 2005 Alpenhouse Fellow. Pressbooks under his imprint, Gendun Editions, founded in 2003, include Shakespeare's Wages by Marvin Bell and A Peal of Sonnets by Alan Michael Parker. Zachary's work on Sutton Hoo Press projects includes William Mathews' Provisions, Mark Doty's Fire to Fire and Peter Everwine's What a Word Dreamt. Zachary graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota and holds a B.A. in English and French. He has received scholarships for achievement in letters and humanities, and academic achievement, as well as grants and awards for poetic and creative work. Working as literary editor of The Wake at the University of Minnesota, he founded Liminal, a literary annual now in its third issue. He studied at the Paul Valery Institute for Languages in Montpelier, France and now teaches English in the Belfort and Besançon. Visit him at www.gendun.com.

Allison Quam is a graduate of the University of Maryland's Creative Writing Program where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry. In 2002, she received a Lannan Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. She will receive a Master in Library Science from the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies in the Spring of 2005. Allison Quam is the founding director of Zumbro River Press, a literary fine press, which produces limited editions of poetry. Allison has helped with numerous projects at the press and was awarded a Maple House Fellowship in the summer of 2003. She published Stanley Plumly's Nostalgia, as well as helping print Provisions: Lost Prose by William Matthews. She has also published Last Hour's Light by Boyd White, and They Gather by Casey VanderVeen. Allison currently lives in Hyattsville, MD while completing her M.L.S, and is the Academic Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Maryland.

Betsy Wheeler lives in Columbus, OH where she is an MFA candidate in poetry at The Ohio State University. She is the founder of Sangha Press, a literary fine press, which publishes poetry in book and broadside form, and values the spirit of community-building among poets and book artists. Her poem "Moon Steady" won Honorable Mention for the 2003 AWP Intro Journal Awards. Before attending graduate school, Betsy worked as an intern at Graywolf Press, as a sales representative for Bookmen while taking time to write, and as Events Coordinator for Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. Wheeler's poems, "Pedagogy," " Mimicry," and "Shipwright" were published by Sutton Hoo Press in 3 Poems; 3 Images in 2001. Wheeler's Maple House project was Exile by Michelle Mitchell-Foust.