Nele Brönner was born in Marburg / Lahn, lives in Berlin, where she works as an illustrator, a freelance artist, and a cartoonist.
She studied visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Politecnico di Milano, and the Accademia di Brera.
In 2015 she won the Serafina Young Talent Award in Illustration. In 2019 one of her titles was voted on the top 25 list for most beautiful German books by the Stiftung Buchkunst.