Claire Van Vliet (born 1933 in Ottawa, Ontario)[1] is an artist, illustrator, printmaker, and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955.
She was teaching at the museum school in Philadelphia in 1961 Born in Canada, Van Vliet emigrated to the United States after the death of her parents.
She worked for John Anderson of Lanston Monotype Company in Philadelphia before moving to Madison, Wisconsin.
She made several trips back to Europe and continued her education in hand typesetting and compositing.
[15] The press publishes collaborative works by contemporary writers, papermakers, printmakers and artists, including Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, W. R. Johnson, Galway Kinnell, John le Carré, Denise Levertov, Sandra McPherson, W. D. Snodgrass, Ruth Fine, Lois K. Johnson, Susan Johanknecht, Jerome Kaplan, Ray Metzker, Peter Schumann, Helen Siegl, Kathryn Clark (Twinrocker), Amanda Degener, Mary Lyn Nutting, Katie MacGregor, and Bernie Vinzani.