Elanna Allen designs and directs television animation, and writes children's books.   You can see her work on Disney Junior, Nick Jr, PBS, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.  She wrote and illustrated the books ITSY MITSY RUNS AWAY, (now a series of animated shorts on Amazon Prime), POOR LITTLE GUY, and PET DAD.  She graduated from Brown University and studied animation and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, and FAMU, the Czech National Film School. Elanna lives in New York City with her husband and two boys, and is learning to play the ukulele.