Paulette Rosen makes artists' books, drawings and dioramic boxes. Her primary medium is pencil and includes collage with found text. Both materials and ideas are the sources for her work. She is fascinated with recording snippets of the natural world and presenting them as idiosyncratic collections, referencing early natural history specimen collections.

Rosen has a B.A. in Arts and Media and an M.A. in Child and Family studies. she has taught Bookbinding to adults at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT, for 12 years. She also teaches children in museum and school settings. Her artists' books are in many book arts collections, including Yale University, The Library of the Boston Atheneum and UCLA's Clark Library. She exhibits regionally.