Rebecca Coleman, a New Yorker by birth, has lived much of her life in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She spent most of her childhood reading obsessively. While attending one of the premier public high schools in the region, she wrote off all forms of bad behavior with the excuse that she had to experience life in order to become a writer. She entered college as a journalism major, then married and had her first child at age twenty-one. After having three more children, she eventually managed to graduate with honors from the University of Maryland at College Park with a degree in English.

She has written for newspapers and trade publications for writers, receiving her first fan letter for a humorous article about a family vacation to the wild North Woods of New Hampshire, a place where locals visit water parks in seventy-degree weather and cell phone reception is more rare than a moose sighting. Having lived for many years in the thirties-era "cooperative community" of Greenbelt, Maryland, and ready to see a return on her investment in adolescent hijinks, she was inspired to write Desperado City--a story that captures the pain and euphoria of impending adulthood, set against the backdrop of a quirky and insular small town.

Rebecca does not have spare time, because she has four children and a constantly bubbling fountain of inspiration to write fiction. If she did, however, she would spend it exploring her fascinations with European prehistory, Japanese culture, and her husband, Mike. She lives and writes in Bowie, Maryland.

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