Renée Nault began her art career as an illustrator, and her vivid watercolors have appeared in books, magazines, and advertisements around the world. Renee works traditionally in ink and watercolor, preferring the tactile qualities of paint and paper to digital tools. She is best known for adapting and illustrating the acclaimed The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood. Salvage is her first original graphic novel.