Erin King has experience in scientific, anatomical, and technical illustration, web publishing and graphic design. She received a BFA in Studio Art from Texas Tech University in 1999, and a MS in Museum and Field Studies from the University of Colorado in 2005.

From 2001 - 2006 she served as the Staff Illustrator/ Office Manager for Global Response, an international environmental advocacy organization based in Boulder, Colorado.

After completing a graphic design internship at Moxie Sozo in 2008, she decided to focus her communication arts career in the fields of natural history and medicine. She has been a teaching assistant in the human anatomy lab at the University of Colorado, and has a long term goal of illustrating a book on comparative primate anatomy.