Beth Follett is the publisher of Pedlar Press, a Toronto-based Canadian literary publishing house, started in 1996 and operated single-handedly over its 14-year history by Beth. How this tiny organization manages to produce beautiful books of poetry, fiction and essays of unfaltering quality and originality and still continue to exist, is difficult to answer. But it does. And that's a great achievement, particularly now, when the literary market is collectively possessed by the Web. It seems likely, however, that individual development continues to be the real goal of life, and to that end Pedlar Press acquires works by Canadian

writers who are struggling with questions about what it means to be human at this time in history and about the function of the individual in society, and whose texts embody these questions in startlingly fresh ways. She herself is such a writer, struggling to explore such questions.