Carol Damioli, a native of Michigan, has lived in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo, Manila, Prague, Florence and Munich. She began as a newspaper reporter and worked in international radio and trade magazines. Her time in Florence led to the publication of her first novel, Rogue Angel, a historical novel about the Florentine Renaissance painter Fra Filippo Lippi, which was published in 1994. Italy also provided fodder for her latest novel, Portrait in Black and Gold, about Sofonisba Anguissola, a Renaissance artist who achieved international celebrity. She and her husband moved to Toronto in 2007, where she still lives and works as an editor and writer.