Mary Jo Putney was born in Upstate New York with a reading addiction, a condition for which there is no known cure. After earning degrees in English Literature and Industrial Design at Syracuse University, she did various forms of design work in California and England before inertia took over in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has lived very comfortably ever since. Mary Jo Putney is a ten-time finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA, has published over 40 books, and was the recipient of the 2013 RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award.
