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	Handtype Press is a company that showcases the finest literature and art created by signers, Deaf and hearing alike, or about the Deaf or signing experience the world over. In addition to publishing full-length books, we maintain a chapbook series, and a weekly e-zine, which you can sign up for free here. Submissions to the chapbook series and e-zine are actively encouraged, but please read our guidelines first. Handtype Press is run by two people with an army of brilliant writers and artists behind them. We'd like you to join us!
	Raymond Luczak, Publisher, grew up deaf as number seven in a hearing family of nine children in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He did not learn sign language until he was 14. After high school, he went straight to Gallaudet University where he graduated magna cum laude with the Class of '88. He spent the next seventeen years in New York City where the first of his thirteen stageplays and seven books began to get produced and published. In September 2005 he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. A fuller bio can be found at his personal web site. The recipient of a first place grant from the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation for Full-Length Fiction 2003, his latest novel, Men with Their Hands, eventually won first place in the Project: QueerLit 2006 Contest. Suspect Thoughts Press will publish the book in December 2007. His latest obsession? Chevre goat cheese spread on organic stoneground wheat crackers.
	John Lee Clark, Senior Editor, is second-generation DeafBlind and an alumnus of Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf.  He seems unable to keep his hands away from editing, as he has worked as the editor-in-chief of two local signing community publications and as the publisher for six years of The Tactile Mind Press before joining Handtype. His sole responsibility at Handtype is to edit books and submissions for the magazine. Ever since he learned that it is a bad idea to write poems filled with obscure words like "ylcept," "frowse," and "luxate," Clark has appeared in many magazines, among them McSweeney's and Poetry. He was honored as a featured artist at the Deaf Way II International Cultural Arts Festival and the recipient of The Robert F. Panara Award for Poetry as well as grants from Minnesota State Arts Board, Jerome Foundation, and VSA arts of Minnesota.  He even had a poem of his selected for the celebrated "Poem of the Day" program broadcast by Martha Stewart Radio Satellite, to which he did not listen, but with the check from Martha Stewart in hand, he can hardly complain.

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Photograph of John Lee Clark by Adrean Clark.