Leanne Marie Bazzetta grew up on a farm in Genessee, Wisconsin for the majority of her life. She knows how to organically grow sweet corn, gourds, pumpkins, strawberries, melons, radishes, and asparagus, as well as how to bale hay and drive a Farmall A. Her family had a blue-painted barn with many dark corners and a horse stall that never held a horse. She has always wanted a horse, but never has had the finances.

Leanne has an affinity for anything handmade (this includes pies), turning old t-shirts into much-cooler patches-on-hoodies, reading as a form of procrastination, and collecting rusty parts of machinery from construction yards and abandoned buildings.

When Leanne was young, she enjoyed untying knots. She would frequently dig her tiny nails (which were bitten to nubs out of habit and joy) between the tightly interlocking pieces of fabric and tug in determination and puzzlement until the snarl loosened. Once the knot fell out and the task was accomplished, she would begin another quest to find more knots to conquer.

Now in her 20's, Leanne still enjoys untying knots. However, the pieces of fabric have changed into social issues and the logistics of all-too-many art projects. She continues to tug and pull in determination and puzzlement with her cropped fingernails, and now with artistic skill, feminist theory, and DIY culture tucked under her belt as well; constantly seeking the joy that comes with an accomplished task.

Having lived in Chicago for the last five years, Leanne recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY. She tries to maintain her nostalgia for the midwest and agriculture by planning her rooftop garden for the coming warm months and volunteering at a local rooftop farm. She also has been known to take sporadic cross-country or cross-continental backpacking/road trips on a whim in order to attempt to see it all in her lifetime. Wanderlust, however, sometimes cannot be conquered like untying knots can.

In the future, Leanne plans to create and illustrate a collection of memories/stories, continue spending too much money on records and hardcover books, continue eating too much natural peanut butter, keep speaking in the third person, and save up enough money to buy all the Prismacolor markers in the universe. All of them.