Now a professor of English, Aaron Barlow has a wide background in journalism, though it has never been his career. He entered the field as a compositor and printer, and acquired experience with "hot" type operations, stereotype and offset by the time he graduated from high school. He printed his first book a year later on an old Chandler & Price clamshell press. During high school, he founded a short-lived “underground” paper -- his first attempt at publishing. In college, he spent a semester as a copyboy at The New York Times and worked as an editor and in layout for his college’s student paper. After graduation, during his one short stint as a professional journalist, he worked for The Westerly Sun, covering outlying township school committees and town councils and writing a number of feature stories. Later, for three years while in graduate school, he edited (and wrote a good deal of) a tabloid monthly dedicated to environmental issues called Chinook Winds. Though primarily a teacher of writing today, he continues to write, producing everything from books on New Media and on Film to essays to reviews.