Celina Buckley grew up on a farm in the middle of the countryside in County Cork, Ireland. She earned her Bachelor of Education (Hons) from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, in 2011. For the following four years, she enjoyed working as a primary school teacher. She then decided to take a break from teaching to pursue her life-long passion for drawing and children's literature and embarked upon the Masters in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art.