Z.D. is a writer, artist, and Geist-erbauer; the director of the Print Before Reading collective; an experienced pamphleteer, agit-eer, and racon-teer; a believer in the myth of John Henry; the ghost that haunts these machines; Chicago-born, Minneapolis-made, music-saved, and ground zero for the new Midwestern Renaissance; coming to you straight outta Hamelin, pied pipe in hand to set you free from your own devices, and to take you back to the land you were born in, and where we shall rise.