Rhonda Black has spent most of her working life in publishing. For many year she was the Editorial/Production Director at Allen and Unwin (A&U), a large independent publisher. Responsible fro producing 200 new titles a year and publishing a small list of academic and general books, she was later part of a management buy-out of the company. Since leaving A&U in 1993 she worked for some years as a publishing consultant. She has undertaken publicity and marketing, worked as a manuscript assessor, written for publication, and produced and taught writing and publishing-related courses at WEA, Sydney, Macquarie University and Sydney University's Centre for Continuing Education. As the Director of Aboriginal Studies Press she is committed to fostering the work of new and established writers in Indigenous Studies. (Source: Arts of Publication, 2007)