Marie-Noëlle Hébert lives in Montreal. Although she studied Advertising Illustration at Collège Salette, she is largely self-taught. She has created a series of illustrations for the documentary Carricks, dans le sillage des Irlandais, by Viveka Melki (Tortuga films, 2017) and illustrated the children's album El viaje de Kalak (Cuento de Luz, 2018). Gorda y fea is her first graphic novel.