Laura EyringLaura Kaderabek Eyring is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She received her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, cum laude. In 2001 she received her BS in chemistry from Drexel University (abandoning her careeras a waitress). She now works as an analytical chemist for the Philadelphia Water Department and draws late at night when her husband and two children are asleep. Freeing the Birds is her first children's picture book. Read More Read Less