Born in The Bronx, April Stewart Klausner is a life-long New Yorker. Always sketching, painting or drawing, April once covered a long row of 4th grade classroom desks in an elaborate scene of horses grazing on a prairie. She was kept after class to scrub them clean, her creativity obviously unappreciated.

April later attended the High School of Music & Art and Parsons School of Design where, in her freshman year, a life-drawing teacher told her to find another profession, perhaps nursing. For better or for worse, April stuck with it, graduating Parsons with a BFA in Illustration. She spent her senior summer with Parsons in France studying both French language and history in Paris and prehistoric cave art in the Dordogne.

April's illustrations use a combination of inks, dyes, gouache, watercolor and colored pencil. When doing collage, she frequently paints her own papers before cutting them.

April lives and works on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband Paul and their sons Gabe and Jonah, two of her greatest creations.