Jan Kellett

was born to English and Canadian parents and educated in the UK before moving to Canada in 2003. After careers in teaching and human resources, she studied bookbinding and botanical painting and drawing at Malvern Hills College of Arts & Crafts, supplementing her skills with courses run by the Society of Archivists, the Institute of Paper Conservation and the Society of Bookbinders. In Canada she discovered letterpress, pochoir, making pastepaper and drypoint/monotype printmaking. In 1996 she began publishing editions of miniature books under the De Walden Press imprint (a total of fourteen editions to date), designing, illustrating and binding each as well as researching, writing and printing many of them. She has received Distinguished Book Awards from the Miniature Book Society on six occasions. De Walden Press books are in public and private collections worldwide, including the British Library, London, and many public and university libraries. A complete collection is held at the Robert W. Woodruff library at Emory University, Atlanta, GA.