Denise Brady
Denise Brady
Denise Brady makes handmade limited editions books of contemporary poetry in Omaha, Nebraska. Since 1984, she has printed and published over fifty works under the imprints Gibraltar Editions and Bradypress. Denise has taught many workshops for children and adults and worked as coordinator of the Nebraska Book Arts Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, as Director of the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, and Coordinator of the Art Gallery at UNO.
My love of poetry and my fascination with making things by hand were joined when I discovered letterpress books. My books and prints begin with a poem or collection of poems. I prefer to set type by hand, to use hand made papers when I can, to bind without adhesives, to print illustrations directly from handmade relief plates. Every edition teaches me something new about language, about type, about paper, about the press, about myself.
