Allana M. Benham is a practicing artist and specialist in artistic anatomy. She co-founded Atelier de Bresoles in Montreal, where she teaches a program of Anatomical Drawing and Ecorche Sculpture. In her spare time, she indulges her love of French instructional texts on drawing and painting. She has a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, and studied at the Florence Academy. She is currently hard at work on her next literary endeavor.