Maria Vetrano tried to save the whales when she was nine-years old. It didn’t quite work. But that didn’t quell her desire to ease some of the world’s ills in some small way, even if only through fiction.

She lives with her wife and animal family in Massachusetts and is the mother of one young-adult daughter. When she's not writing, Maria is principal of Vetrano Communications, the PR and marketing firm that she founded in 2004, which specializes in technology companies as clientele. Maria is also a lounge singer who’s entertained audiences in Boston, Cambridge, and Provincetown. With her wife, she founded Against the Tide, a fundraising event to fight breast cancer. She is a graduate of Colgate University with a B.A. in English Literature.

She is represented by Maura K. Phelan of Green Light Literary + Media.