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Scenes: Dancing Girl Press: an interview with Kristy Bowen

The dancing girl press chapbook series began as a print offshoot of an online journal I had founded in 2001, wicked alice, devoted to publishing work by women authors. Amazing things were just beginning to happen on the web in terms of online publications, but I was also very much enamored of the solidity of paper and ink, so in 2004, I decided to branch into print. I was also beginning to make forays into book and paper arts on my own, so I was excited by the possibilities of combining those intersections with what we were doing. By early 2004, I had lined up our first author, the late Adrianne Marcus, who was kind enough to take a chance on her book, The Resurrection of Trotsky. I basically started with some cardstock and a saddle stapler and went from there. It took a while to figure out layout templates, printing logistics, trimmers shipping, etc, so it was mostly trial and error. For the first few years, we were funded mostly out of pocket, but by 2007, we were humming along quite nicely and breaking even. That was the year we more than doubled the number of books and moved the whole operation out of my dining room and into a studio space (one that also creates a number of art, paper, and crafty ventures for our online shop alongside the chapbook offerings). Since then, we issue about 40-50 titles a year, all of them handmade and mostly open-run editions. How would you characterize the work you publish?