For more than 25 years, Teresa Jaynes has created installations and artist books based on extensive research in special collections and libraries. She is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, as well as grants from the Independence Foundation, Art Matters, National Endowment for the Arts, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Jaynes has exhibited her work in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Rosenbach Museum & Library, and the Institute of Contemporary Art.

She received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. As executive director of Philagrafika from 2000-2011, she organized the international contemporary print festival Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. She currently teaches at the University of the Arts.