Maria V. Snyder changed from being a meteorologist to a novelist in 1995, when she began writing to keep her sanity while raising two children. Since then, she has published numerous freelance articles in magazines and newspapers, and teaches fiction-writing classes at the local college and area libraries. The classes give her the wonderful opportunity to encourage fellow writers, and to keep improving her craft.
Maria lives with her husband, son, daughter and yellow lab, Hazelnut, in Pennsylvania where she is writes and is also pursuing a master's degree in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University.