MaryLou is an award-winning broadcast and print journalist with a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a Penn State graduate.

When she’s not writing fiction, you can find MaryLou on the tennis court or the ski slope, or curled up with a good book and her cats at home, learning how to be an empty nester.

MaryLou is a member of Sisters in Crime, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and for more than three years, she’s been dedicated to her writing critique group from The Shit No One Tells You About Writing podcast.