Elham Kazemi was born in 1974 in an art-loving family. She spent her childhood watching the little ladybirds in the yard, playing with cats and drawing with her crayons until she entered school. There the textbooks did not have the color and smell of her picture books; therefore, she made her school days more enjoyable by sticking her drawings on the pictures of the textbooks. 

Having finished the elementary school, she enrolled in academy of art and won the second place in the student festival in the field of design for two consecutive years.

Feeling confident of her choice for the future, she entered the Azad University of Art and Architecture in 1994 to get a degree in painting. The cost of education caused her, who was interested in illustrating children’s books, to expand her activity in this field by taking orders from various publications. In addition to that, she started teaching painting at the art academy and continued her activities in the two fields of illustration and teaching. In 2005, she decided to pursue a master’s degree in art and won a scholarship in painting from Al-Zahra University. Simultaneously with her studies, she started her cooperation with the Organization for Educational Research and Planning and was awarded third place at the 2006 textbook festival and she was praised in 2007.

Having graduated, she started teaching at the University of Applied Sciences. Then in 2014, she became the director of the painting department at the University of Applied Sciences, Center 11. In 2012, she began working with Al Ameen Publishing in Malaysia, and her illustrations were screened at the German International Illustration Festivals in 2007 and 2012, in Belgrade in 2007, 2011, and 2013, in Sharjah in 2012, in Croatia in 2014, and China in 2018. Her illustrated books have been translated into Turkish, English, Hindi, Chinese, and Arabic.

Her works are characterized by attention to details. She believes that paying attention to details and the surrounding environment weaves a real atmosphere into the story and gives life and color to the characters.

she stated, “Looking at my works, I get excited to see the details I used, so my audience will definitely love it.”