Patrick Lee Hughes

Prior to landing his first gig in publishing as a volunteer in a San Francisco bookstore in the fall of 1988, Patrick Hughes studied film at Wright State in Dayton, Ohio. In 1993, he founded the North American wing of AK Press, a publisher and distributor of underground media. In 1995, Patrick left to go sell "Mind Candy for the Masses" for publishing legend Ron Turner at Last Gasp of San Francisco. He's been the publisher of Access magazine; a contributing columnist for The San Francisco Bay Guardian; a staff writer for R.U. Sirius' Gettingit.com; an assistant to Warren Hinckle and his dog Melman; a blogger for UtterSpeculation.com; the sales and marketing director at Greenery Press; ran special sales for SCB Distributors; started Alternet Books; and a now criss-crosses the country as the friendly ambassador for Central Recovery Press. Despite his paralyzing obsession with SF Giants baseball, Patrick is known to appear in the occasional film or organizing another bleeding-edge spoken word event. He splits his time between the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, NV and a creaky old Victorian in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco .