Andrew Hoyem

Andrew Lewison Hoyem is a typographer, letterpress printer, publisher, poet, and preservationist . He is the founder and director of Arion Press in San Francisco until his retirement in October 2018 . Hoyem has published such contemporary writers as Seamus Heaney (Squarings, Stone from Delphi), Robert Alter (Genesis), Tom Stoppard (Arcadia), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (A Coney Island of the Mind), David Mamet (American Buffalo), and scholars Helen Vendler (editions of Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, Shakespeare’s sonnets, and Melville, Arthur Danto, and Richard Wollheim (Freud) Hoyem took the press's name from the Greek poet Gutenberg who was saved by a dolphin .