Serena McCarroll was born in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1975. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her dog, Bobby, and her cat, Mildred. She received a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art in 2002 and a MFA from Ryerson University in 2011. In 2007 she co-founded a tiny art-shop / music venue in rural Saskatchewan called All Citizens. It would become the subject of her first book. Her work has been shown in galleries across Canada.