John Cutrone, MFA

John Cutrone is the Director of the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic Libraries. He is a book artist and writer and co-proprietor of Convivio Bookworks in Lake Worth Beach, Florida. He is the author of the Convivio Book of Days, a literary lifestyle blog that encourages us to live the ceremony of each day. In 2025, John was named North American Editor of Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association. 

• 2001, MFA Book Arts, University of Alabama
• 1995, BFA Ceramics, Florida Atlantic University
• 1995, BA English, Florida Atlantic University

• Artists’ books 
• Book arts 
• The works of John Eric Broaddus 

• North American Editor, Parenthesis: The Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, since 2025. 
• The Convivio Book of Days. Blog, established 2013. 
• Power of the Presses: In Our Hands. Essay, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, 2025. 

• Outstanding Alum, University of Alabama, 2023, Book Arts