Eleanor Droll was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City and graduated with a Bachelor of Art degree in May 1987. She continued her studies in drawing and printmaking informally at the Kansas City Art Institute. In the Fall of 1989, she began graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She completed her Master of Fine Art degree in May 1992. The following Fall, she moved to Gatlinburg, Tennessee to start an eleven month residency at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. There she continued her drawing and monotype work and created handmade blank books. She taught drawing and printmaking at Arrowmont as part of their community class schedule.

Droll returned to Kansas City in the Fall of 1993 to continue her work. Upon her return, she taught foundation drawing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and drawing and design at Rockhurst University. She devoted her time to teaching children's art classes at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art as well.

In October 2003, Droll relocated to Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Minda. This move allowed her the circumstances to work more intimately with her images and Photoshop. Photoshop, much like etching, allows her to layer as well as juxtapose her images to create pictures that contemplate the world around us.

In August 2008, she moved with Pete to Austin, Texas where she will continue her work with documenting her surroundings and people and converting those images into simple linoleum cut prints.