Jaime Robles is a writer and book artist. She was one of the founding
publishers of the award-winning Five Trees Press, as well as the literary
editor at The Lapis Press in Santa Monica for the publisher, abstract
expressionist Sam Francis. She founded and was, for five years, the
principal editor of Rooms, a literary zine that is a forum for women writers
and artists exploring experimental writing and art. She is currently the
Publisher and Editor for Five Fingers Review.

          Recent chapbooks include Unseen Stream (Em Press, 2000), and This Narrow
Ring (Potes and Poets, 2002) one of a series of chapbooks of work by
experimental women writers edited by Sheila Murphy.

          Recent exhibitions include books in Rereadings at Gallery Lux, San
Francisco, and Revealing the Mysteries: The Development of the Artist¹s Book
in the Bay Area, at the Center for the Book, San Francisco, both in 2002. In
June 2003 she curated the exhibition Unbound and Under Cover, at the
Berkeley Art Center. This show of text based visual art included her
installation of poems embedded in wax tablets that recounted the death of
her mother.

          She is the recipient of the 2001 Kathryn Green Fellowship at the Djerassi
Resident Artists Program. Besides artist¹s books, Robles writes libretti for
composer Peter Josheff. Their piece, Memento, was performed by Allen Shearer
at the Berkeley Art Center, March 2001, and Diary, a chamber piece for
accompanied soprano, baritone and spoken female voice was a featured piece
of the American Composer¹s Salon in 2003.

          Her poem series entitled Soundtracks was one of two runners-up in the Poets
& Writers California Voices Poetry contest, 2003. She has an MFA in Creative
Writing from San Francisco State University.