Nancy Duck Hildebrand was born in Ontario in 1977 and grew up on the Duck family's heritage farm near the shores of Lake Erie. Nancy has been writing and illustrating since she was four years old. After leaving the farm, she lived in Quebec, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba before settling in British Columbia in 1999.

Nancy's passion for old buildings, nature, and found objects continually resurfaces in her artwork. Her fluid watercolours and distressed mixed media works reflect the depth and richness of Canadian landscapes and weathered brick, stone, and wood.

Since graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in 1999, Nancy has been working as a freelance and in-house writer and editor. Projects include children's stories, training manuals, business correspondence, web content, French-to-English translation, and educational material. She also works in communications for Parks Canada.

Nancy is principally a self-taught artist, and is now studying fine art techniques at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and writing at Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program. She and her husband Curtis, a photographer, live in Vancouver.