April Vollmer is a New York artist and author who specializes in Japanese woodblock. She earned an MFA in printmaking from Hunter College in 1983, and first visited Japan in 2004 at the Nagasawa Art Park Residency. She combines contemporary and traditional ways of working, using the computer as well as traditional Japanese tools. She has exhibited her work widely, lectured, and taught many woodcut classes. Her book Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop was published by Watson-Guptill in 2015.