Born and raised in California, Laura Cornell was a pre-med major in college until she switched her focus to art. At the time she was living in LA, working at the Farmer’s Market during the summers, studying the eclectic mix of characters LA and the market had to offer. When she moved to New York, she found herself in the middle of an even more eclectic mix of characters—which helped provide more inspiration for the fantastic characters she puts in her drawings for her books.

Laura Cornell is the illustrator of Jamie Lee Curtis’s Is There Really a Human Race?, It's Hard to Be Five, I’m Gonna Like Me, Where Do Balloons Go?, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born, and When I Was Little: A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth, as well as Good Night Pillow Fight, Annie Bananie and Earl’s Too Cool for Me, both by Leah Komaiko.

Laura Cornell and her daughter, Lilly, continue to live in busy New York City, with their two cats and fish.
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