Ron Drummond has published profiles and critical studies of figures as diverse as composers Hector Berlioz and Pauline Oliveros, jazz guitarist Pat Martino, and novelist Steve Erickson. He co-edited and wrote the introductory essays for the eight-volume edition (the first in 200 years) of The Vienna String Quartets of Anton Reicha (Merton Music, London, 2006). His essay on ancestral memory and the music of Jethro Tull, "Broken Seashells"—which takes as its point of departure (or arrival) an incident from Drummond's visit to the Isle of Skye in December 2003—was written at the behest of Steve Erickson and published in the fourth issue of the CalArts literary journal Black Clock; it has since been reprinted on the official Jethro Tull website, www.jethrotull.com/news/BC4D4.pdf. Google "Dao Gaia" for his LiveJournal.

As publisher of Incunabula, quality small press of Seattle, Drummond has published two books by Samuel R. Delany and the short story collection Antiquities by John Crowley (short-listed for the World Fantasy Award in 1994), and is currently in production on the 25th anniversary edition of John Crowley's Little, Big (www.littlebig25.com).

Drummond has worked editorially with Samuel R. Delany more often than anyone else alive, most recently on Delany's new novel, Dark Reflections (2007). Drummond has also worked extensively with John Crowley, editing Dæmonomania (2000) and Endless Things (2007), and, for ElectricStory.com, definitive versions of Ægypt and Love & Sleep. He's worked with Greg Bear and Eileen Gunn, among many others, and once edited the draft translation by poets Olga Broumas and T Begley of Open Papers, a collection of essays by Nobel Laureate Odysseas Elytis.

Drummond's design for a World Trade Center memorial, the Garden Steps, was featured on CNN.com and Seattle's KOMO-TV News and was the subject of an experimental documentary by the award-winning indy filmmaker Gregg Lachow. The design was praised by architecture critic Herbert Muschamp and lifelong New Yorker Samuel Delany, among many others. Drummond submitted the Garden Steps to the official international design competition for the WTC Memorial in June 2003; though not chosen, it was digitally archived at www.wtcsitememorial.org/ent/enti=832166.html.

A native of Seattle, Ron Drummond currently lives in historic Lansingburgh, New York.