User:MaryAmesMitchell

Mary Ames Mitchell was born and raised in Pasadena, California. She majored in Art History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, then obtained a teaching credential from USC’s Graduate School of Education. After five years of teaching elementary school in the Pasadena and Menlo Park Unified School Districts, Mary took a break to have two children.

She returned to school to obtain her BFA in Graphics and Packaging from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design. Since graduating in 1988, Mary has worked as a graphic artist and designs packaging and marketing materials for Fortune 500 companies. Mary has been on the faculties of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and San Francisco City College. She teaches Typography and The History of Printing. In 2011 she launched Peach Plum Press to help self-publishing authors market their books.

Published works:

The Man in the Purple Cow House: and other tales of eccentricity, Hope Publishing House, Pasadena, California 2005

The Search for My Abandoned Grandmother, Peach Plum Press, San Rafael, California, 2010