homeBOVINE represents the publishing practice of Raeann Van Zee. Raeann is a designer, printmaker, and educator in Chicago, Illinois. Raeann has been printing and publishing books since 2022, and started doing so under the name BOVINE in 2025. Raeann graduated with her Master’s Degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2024. Her body of work is concerned with value, performance, forms of labor and currency, printing methods, and independent publishing. 

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BOVINE press commits to publishing books about the personal, the paradoxical, books about human consumption, about leisure, about work. Books that have words that may be significant, or words that may just sound nice. BOVINE considers a book to be a collection, an appendage, sometimes a state. BOVINE prefers a knowledge if it's a poetic one, whatever that may mean. BOVINE loves a bibliography, perhaps more than the content the sources contribute to.


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