Tanya was born and raised in New Jersey and moved to Chicago in 1990. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism. Tanya has published countless print articles from Chicago and its suburbs and later worked on-air in Pennsylvania and Kansas. Eventually, she retired from a reporter’s transient lifestyle and returned to Chicago to attend Loyola University Chicago, where she graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s and later a master’s degree in nursing.
With the closures of 2020 caused by the COVID pandemic, Tanya resurrected her writing pursuits and finished producing her first novel. Currently working full-time as a nurse, in her spare time she likes to grab dinner with friends and binge-watch mind-bending shows on streaming platforms. In books, she favors thrillers, but she also maintains a comedy collection, seeing humor as the way through the most serious situations. In constant learning mode, she values education and writing and believes everybody has a story.