David Blakesley is Professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design and the Campbell Chair in Technical Communication at Clemson University. He is a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America. He founded Parlor Press in 2002 and serves as its Publisher and CEO. His most recent books are written with Jimmy Butts (The Sophist's Cookbook), Steve Katz (Elaborate Cosmos), and Cheryl Glenn and Rich Enos (Shaping Rhetorical Studies).