Born and raised near Omaha, NE, Chelsea Baker settled on cartooning as a career choice at the ripe old age of eight. In 2003, she moved to Olympia, WA to attend the Evergreen State College. She graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts with an Emphasis in Comics and Sequential Art. She spent over four years working at Danger Room Comics in downtown Olympia and currently makes her living doing freelance illustration, graphic design, and drawing comics for the Olympia Power & Light newspaper. She splits her free time between drawing comics, teaching classes and workshops about comics and self publishing, and organizing the annual Olympia Comics Festival. She can be contacted at chelseathebaker@gmail.com.