Lauren Lowen graduated from the Illustration Department at The Rhode Island School of Design before she started illustrating for magazines and books. After teaching illustration and working in the giftware and stationery industry, she returned to illustrating while teaching at the Watkins College of Art and Design. She enjoys creating quirky, silly characters in art full of colour and texture, and describes her work as “whimsically awkward and awkwardly whimsical”. Lauren loves eating sushi, and lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.