[1] Strain resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband Jon Shiring, a lead engineer at Respawn Entertainment, and their adopted son.

[1][6] Other prominent comics Strain worked on for Marvel include; Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, S.H.I.E.L.D., and World War Hulk.

Strain worked as a colorist for Marvel for 8 years, before she retired at 32 and decided to go to grad school at the American Film Institute.

[6][7] Initially, Strain was interested in 3-D graphics, but after taking a comic-writing class she realized she really wanted to write stories, so she switched her focus to screenwriting.

Strain and Adrian Alphona, who previously worked together on the Marvel series Runaways, collaborated on an art book.

[6] In 2011, Strain met Jayd Aït-Kaci, an artist she long admired according to a Newsarama interview, through a mutual friend.

On the webcomics official website, Stain describes The Fox Sister as a "Korean Supernatural thriller/dram-edy story" set in South Korea in the 1960s.