Malcolm Margolin is an author, publisher and founder and executive director of the California Institute for Community Arts,and Nature. Throughout his prolific career, Margolin wrote several books on California natural history, cultural history and Indian life, such as The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area; founded the independent nonprofit publisher Heyday; oversaw the creation of the magazines News from Native California and Bay Nature; and was deeply involved in a variety of cultural institutions like the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the Inlandia Institute, the California Baksetweavers Association and Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. He will be awarded the PubWest's 2020 Jack D.Rittenhouse Award during the PubWest 2020 conference in February 2020. His next book, Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderments in Native California, will be published by Heyday in 2021.