Kitty Maryatt has been happily involved in the book arts since 1971 when she started the life-long study of calligraphy. She started binding in 1975, and received a grant in graduate school to study fine binding in Ascona, Switzerland in 1981. By 1977, Kitty was drawn to letterpress printing and typography.

In ninth grade, she had a fantastic early bookmaking experience: all the homeroom students wrote their autobiographies, hand-lettered and bound the finished book (over-achiever Kitty had to make two books).

Kitty has an MFA in graphic design from UCLA, an MA in mathematics from Claremont Graduate University, and a BA from Scripps College.

She is currently Director of the Scripps College Press and Assistant Professor of Art at Scripps College in Claremont, California. She has taught Typography and the Book Arts at Scripps for 18 years, producing 36 editions to date. In this class, students write their own stories, develop imagery, print the collaborative books by letterpress, and bind them in limited editions of about 90 copies, for sale.

Kitty has been teaching Book Structures for UCLA Extension since 1988, and just introduced a course called The Art of the Book: Concept, Development and Execution. She previously taught calligraphy there for many years.

She is principal owner of Two Hands Press, a book arts design studio specializing in the design and fabrication of both handmade and production books. Her own one-of-a-kind books frequently are investigations of book structure.

She lives in Oak Park, California.