Élodie Durand is an artist and illustrator, for both children and adults, who has been working for over 15 years. She graduated from the School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg and the University of Paris VIII. After debuting with the international award-winning graphic memoir Parenthesis, she has also drawn the children’s series Les grandes années, among other projects.

In 2021, Top Shelf published Parenthesis as her English-language debut, which won the inaugural Graphic Medicine Award and was named one of the American Library Association's Best Graphic Novels for Adults.