JoAnn Adinolfi was born in Staten Island, New York. She grew up in a big, Italian family with lots of love and good things to eat. JoAnn studied illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany. She has lived in many different places and now resides in snowy New Hampshire surrounded by scientists. Her husband is a physics professor, her son is a marine biology major, and her daughter is a biology major. JoAnn works in a studio in her backyard, which everyone calls The Shed even after she put a sign on it that says "Studio." When she's not working, she loves to travel with her family anywhere and everywhere.