Ashley King graduated from Coventry University with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Illustration and Animation. Ashley has illustrated three middle-grade fiction titles in the UK — Erica's Elephant, The Bookshop Girl and Kaye Umansky's Witch for a Week. Lazy Daisy – published by Little Hare in 2019 – was his first picture book. 

Ashley lives in Warwickshire, UK and also works as a children's bookseller at Waterstones.