Romey Petite and Laurel Holden met at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont and were members of the graduating class of 2013. 

One lovely spring day, while crossing a bridge over the White River—a stream that runs between two towns and two states—Romey asked Laurel a question...

Sharing an appreciation of whimsy and fairy tales, these two found friendship and banded together to collaborate and create a rough draft of Spiderella: The Girl Who Spoke with Spiders—originally published as part of Laurel's CCS Senior Thesis. Romey wrote the words. Laurel made the pictures. Afterward, the pages were posted, one at a time on tumblr until the artwork was completed. 

Together, Laurel and Romey live with a corgi named Felix in a little town under the pines.  Romey can be reached at romeypetite (at) gmail (dot) com and Laurel at laurelmax.holden (at) gmail (dot) com.