Janejira Damron is a Thai-American author, illustrator, photographer, cosplayer and student filmmaker. Named after the main character in the Thai novel The Only Love of Janejira. She picked up drawing in the third grade after reading Natsuki Takaya's manga Fruits Basket. As the years passed she fell deeper in love with anime, manga and Japanese culture. This later shaped her perspective of the world. By 2011 she taught herself how to blog, create youtube content, digital paint, and create original manga characters and storylines. With the help of her loving and supportive family of course.