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My Publishers
- Gun Girl and the Tall Guy, Pegasus Publishers
- The Model Spy, Milford House Press, A Division of Sunbury
- The Point of Vanishing, Milford House Press, A Division of Sunbury
- Eden Waits, Milford House Press, A Division of Sunbury
- Parlor Games, Doubleday, A Division of Penguin Random. Note: The film rights to Parlor Games have been sold.
Press Kit Bio
Maryka Biaggio, PhD, is a psychology professor turned novelist with a passion for history and the human spirit. After a successful academic career, she turned to writing historical fiction inspired by real people—figures whose lives illuminate the complexities of their time. Her debut novel, Parlor Games (Doubleday, 2013), was praised by New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin as “a wildly entertaining and constantly surprising ride.”
She has since published Eden Waits, The Point of Vanishing, The Model Spy, and Gun Girl and the Tall Guy. Her forthcoming novel, Margery and Me, will be published by Regal House in 2026 and has been hailed by distinguished author Valerie Martin as “a wry, lively, and wicked-good novel.”
She loves the challenge of starting with actual historical figures and dramatizing their lives—figuring out what motivated them to behave as they did, studying how cultural and historical context influenced them, and recreating their emotional world through dialogue and action. She prides herself on carefully researching the period, place, and people to provide readers with an immersive experience.
Her fiction has garnered numerous accolades, including the Willamette Writers Award, Oregon Writers Colony Award, Historical Novel Society Review Editors’ Choice, La Belle Lettre Award, a Michigan Upper Peninsula Notable Book Award, and a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant. She served on the Board of the Historical Novel Society North America Conference from 2015 to 2025 and has mentored writers in the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ Writer-to-Writer Mentorship program since 2020.
An avid opera fan, she also enjoys gardening, art films, and, of course, great fiction. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
She would like to acknowledge grant support from the Regional Arts & Culture Council of Portland, OR, for her current work in progress. Thank you, RACC!
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