Laura McGee Kvasnosky grew up in Northern California. She is the author of the Zelda and Ivy books, one of which won dual Golden Kite Honor Awards in 1999 from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the American Library Association's 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award as America's most distinguished book for beginning readers published that year.

Along with Kate Harvey McGee, she is also the author of Squeak! and Little Wolf's First Howling, which won the Margaret Wise Brown Honor Book Award for children's literature text. Laura lives in Seattle.