Maria Vale is a journalist who has worked for Publishers Weekly, Glamour, Redbook and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a double-Rita finalist whose paranormal romance series--The Last Wolf, A Wolf Apart, Forever Wolf, Season of the Wolf & the upcoming Wolf in the Shadows--have been chosen by Amazon, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, ALA Booklist, Kirkus and BookPage as Best Books of the Year. Trained as a medievalist, she persists in trying to shoehorn the language of Beowulf into things that don't really need it. She lives in New York City with her husband and two kids.