Craig Jobson, owner and founder of Lark Sparrow Press, is Professor of Art and Design at Columbia College Chicago. He has transformed 20 professional years of design direction for books, magazines and advertising into a passion for the Book Arts. In his previous design career he has held positions as Art Director for the National Office of the American Heart Association in Dallas, Texas, Art director for Tracy-Locke /BBDO Advertising, Dallas, Texas, Design Director for Holt, Rinehart and Winston in Austin, Texas and Design Director for McDougal Littell Houghton Mifflin in Evanston, Illinois. His undergraduate studies are in Literature and in Fine Art at the University of Texas at Austin, and he has an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts with a concentration in Book And Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. This past summer he taught The Printmaker's Eye and the Bookmaker's Hand at Columbia's summer exension program in Florence, Italy at Santa Repartata International School of Art. During the previous summer he worked on a grant completing the editioning of three different books.

His studies of the Private Press movement in Britain and the United States, resulted in the 2001 founding of Lark Sparrow Press - a private press dedicated to publishing artists books and limited editions of contemporary fiction and poetry. Recent works included a suite of short stories, The Billy Chronicles, that represent the first offerings by the press. They are letterpress printed, illustrated and editioned, handmade books that include a CD performance of each story. The first three stories of the series, D.B. and the Double-Five, Lizard and Julio Go Nel-o, and The Colonel's Chicanery are Texas tales of transgression, retribution, reconciliation and dominoes.