Kara Gasparro graduated from the Norwich University College of the Arts (formally NSAD) in 2008. She is originally from Queens New York and came over to England in 2000. Kara has interests and skills in all types of hands on creative work. She makes stuffed toys which are called 'Mister Hickling & Friends' aka mister hicklings. She is also a photographer and can manipulate her images on photoshop in different ways. Kara Gasparro currently lives just outside London. She has a cat called Ian thomas of whom she has created a stuffed toy of and stories which tell of the kind of trouble he gets into.