Tory Cameron is a University of Maryland, College Park graduate with her Associate degree in Creative Writing and Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. Her poems, photographs, and short stories have been published in literary magazines and journals, as well as in The National Museum for Women in the Arts journal Urban Inkslingers. She's studied under authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston and Wanda Coleman in writing workshops, as well as having professionally edited over two dozen novels for published authors. She's taken college courses at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, and was awarded Excellence in the Arts at The John F. Kennedy Center for Creative Writing. 

In addition, she's a voracious reader, loves 60's-80's music, and comes from a car racing family. After sweating it in Tucson, Arizona for nearly three years, she moved back to Maryland where the critters are less likely to eat her. She's either teaching 9th graders about characters in books or snuggling with her two cats.