Katie Harnett grew up in Sheffield, and graduated from an Illustration BA at the University of the West of England followed by an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. She received the Bologna Children's Book Fair ARS IN FABULA Grant Award in 2015, and her work was selected to be exhibited twice at The Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Book Fair. She is the author the author of Archie Snufflekins Oliver Valentine Cupcake Tiberius Cat and Ivy and the Lonely Raincloud, both with Flying Eye Books.