Artist & Head Bookwitch

Karen Swartz (Talenshi)

Karen is a digital illustrator with a love of birds, fantasy, and all things textural and tactile. Her designs are on the covers of our journals, which she makes by hand, and she also works on researching and developing new products for us to make together.

Scientist & Maker

Dr. Justin Melendez

Justin is a scientist with a PhD in Genetics! He also does wildlife and product photography, and works on researching and developing new treasures for us to make together. Often Justin's curiosity about new materials, and the ensuing experiments lead us to a new, wonderful hand-crafted product that we can share with the world!

Our excellent assistant, Irini

Irini has been instrumental in helping us keep up with book making recently while we prepare to expand. Her bio is coming soon. We're so grateful to have her working with us!