The illustrator Màriam Ben-Arab was born in Roca del Vallès, near Barcelona, in 1983. She picked up a pencil at an early age and never put it down. She studied Fine Art at the Universidad de Barcelona, and specialised in illustration at the Escola Llotja. She mostly works on children's books and comics, but occasionally likes to make forrays into illustration for youth and adults. She loves books about monsters, drinking tea and riding her red bicycle.