Barbara Getty, BA, MAT, was an adjunct professor at Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, for 28 years, where she taught calligraphy and handwriting. She also taught at Lewis & Clark College. She attended Lewis & Clark College and Portland State University. The authors have conducted hundreds of seminars nationally and internationally. They are also co-authors of the Getty-Dubay Italic Handwriting Series, published by Getty-Dubay Productions, and Italic Letters: Calligraphy and Handwriting. They have been featured in numerous publications including American Medical News, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post as well as on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR and PBS.