If We Were Villains (Rio) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Miami, Florida, USA
• Raised—State of North Carolina
• Education—B.A., University of North Carolina; M.A., Kings College, London
• Currently—no set address


M.L. Rio is an American author of the 2017 If We Were Villains, a suspense-mystery story surrounding a group of college Shakespearean actors obsessed with The Bard.

Rio was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in North Carolina; she's spent time in Middle Earth, Neverland, Wonderland, and Hogwarts, so she tends to move around. In fact, she considers herself a bit of a nomad even today: having finished her Masters at King's College in London, she's in the U.S.enjoying the freedom of settling, well …nowhere.

Along with her childhood love of reading, Rio has been writing as early as six or seven, when she penned her first story about a girl with a pet dragon. By 14 she'd written a novel, the first of several, as she says on her website, which fall under the category of desk drawer novels.

Just as she took to writing, she also took to acting. At 14 (around the time she finished that first "novel"), Rio discovered the joys of Shakespeare, a passion that grew into full-blown Bardolatry. Since then she has played Shakespearean roles as varied as the hunchbacked Richard III and Titania, the fairy queen in Midsummer Night's Dream. Rio's love for the Bard continued unabated and spurred her on to her Master's in Shakespeare Studies.

As of this writing (2017) Rio is planning to go on for her Ph.D. (Adapted from online sources and from the author's website.)