Mertianna currently lives with her husband and three dogs (1 huge, 1 large, 1 small) in Northern California. She has a son who is attending college. After many years working as a professional manager while secretly wishing she was a writer, she took a detour from the corporate world to immerse herself into fictional worlds of her own making. Mertianna has accumulated multiple graduate degrees in business and survived years of doctoral studies in psychology, all of which undoubtedly has influenced how her characters behave or not behave as the case may be.