Maryann D'Agincourt was born in Boston, MA. An alumna of Simmons College, she has earned two graduate degrees in English literature, and studied in the Humber School for Writers, Toronto. She has written design columns for a regional newspaper in the Connecticut Valley, and has had short stories published in literary magazines. Along with Journal of Eva Morelli, her short story "Wades' Technique" in another year was a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition. She and her husband, a child psychiatrist, have two sons and live outside of Boston. She is currently working on another novel.