Laura received her B.F.A. in Illustration from the Columbus College of Art and Design in grey, wet Columbus Ohio. Upon graduation, she high-tailed it to the warm dry desert where she lives and works from her sunny studio. Laura has done illustrations for many clients; including, Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, Highlights for Children and High Five magazines, the educational divisions of Steck- Vaughn, Houghton Mifflin, Zaner Bloser, Scott Foresman, Scholastic, Rigby, Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Viking and Harcourt, and the publishers Pauline Books and Media and Boyds Mills Press.