Rosina was born and raised in Chicago, but she has lived for longer periods in the Austrian alps, on the East coast (where she earned a PhD in linguistics from Princeton) and Michigan. After twelve years as a tenured professor -- getting up early and staying up late to write fiction-- she took heart in hand and left academia. She now writes full time from her home in the Pacific Northwest where she lives with her husband, daughter, Tuck & Bunny (the puppy boys) and three cats.