Nicholas James Whittington is a poet, scholar, educator, editor, printer, and publisher living in Oakland since 2012. Born and raised in San Francisco, he continues to edit and publish the roughly annual AMERARCANA along with the occasional small book under the auspices of his family bookshop, Bird & Beckett books, in the city, while completing his dissertation on the original incarnation of the Masters in Poetics Program at New College of California. At Impart Ink, an errant studio, he designs, typesets, and prints books both digitally and via letterpress. Recent chapbooks include Provisions (2017, PUSH Press) and Indefinite Sessions (2016, Gas Meter Books). RESOLUTION OF THE WEST (2020, Bootstrap Press) is his first full-length collection.