Maria Ferrarella was born in West Germany, and arrived in the U.S. at the age of four. She earned her Masters in Shakespearean Comedy from Queens College in N.Y Ferrarella's first romance was bought by Second Chance At Love November of 1981. She has been published by Silhouette, Harlequin, Zebra, Harper, Bantam and Berkeley. She has received several Rita nominations from the Romance Writers of America Association over the years, with one win for Father Goose, in the Traditional Romance Category. She has also been nominated several times in various categories by Romantic Times Magazine.