Born in Buenos Aires as Marisol Misenta, in 1972, she studied Fine Arts at the National School Rogelio Yrurtia. She also attended courses of the Licenciatura in Mixed Arts at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
She has worked in the fields of comic, poetry and visual arts. In this moment, she is entirely devoted to book illustration for children. Very often she is the authoress of the texts of her books.
Her first book, Vida de perros (A dog’s life) was published in 1997, following a Mention of Honour at the contest A la orilla del Viento, organized by FCE publishers (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico). From that moment on she has continued to publish books as an integral author, and has in turn illustrated texts written by other authors, such as Jorge Luján, Graciela Montes and Paul Auster.
Her personal style for telling stories by means of drawings (candid, yet sometimes ironic) has allowed her the good fortune of being published in Mexico, Spain, USA, France, Korea, Switzerland and Argentina.
Among other projects, she took part in the BIB ‘99 Workshop for illustrators, organized by UNESCO in Slovakia, and has received the Golden Apple 2003 Award for her illustrations to the book Tic Tac.
Her books El Globo (The Balloon) and El cuento de Navidad de Auggie Wren (Auggie Wren's Christmas Story) have been selected to be part of the White Ravens list 2003, and 2004, the latter involving a Special Mention.
As a 2006 finalist of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize, she was recognised as one of the five best illustrators in the world
