Storer was born in
Santa Monica, California, on October 11, 1933, to a Catholic father,
Franz Bachelin, and a Jewish mother, Anita Hirtfield. She was raised in her father's
Catholic faith. When her mother was on her deathbed, Storer learned that her mother fled Germany to escape
Nazism. As a child, she spent time on Hollywood movie sets with her father, Franz Bachelin, who worked as an art director. From 1951 to 1955, Storer attended the
San Francisco College for Women, and she earned a bachelor's degree in art from the
Dominican College in 1970. She earned her master's degree in 1971 from
California State University, San Francisco (now San Francisco State University). From 1968 through the 1970s, she taught at the
College of Marin in Kentfield. She held a teaching appointment at San Francisco State University from 1970 to 1973. She taught briefly at UC Santa Cruz in 1976 and then at
Sonoma State University from 1976 to 1988. Storer also taught at the
San Francisco Art Institute from 1981 to 1999. Storer was a visiting artist at the
American Academy in Rome in 1996 and 1997. Storer lives in
Inverness, California, and was married (from 1987 until his death in 2021) to
Prince Andrew Romanoff, an artist and the grandnephew of
Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor. She was a friend of author
Philip K. Dick. ==Style and influences==