Fiorella De Maria was born in 1979 in Italy of Maltese parents. She grew up in Wiltshire, England and attended St Mary's School, Shaftesbury. After a gap year working and travelling in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, Fiorella read English as an undergraduate at Cambridge and stayed on to complete an MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance literature, specialising in the English verse of Robert Southwell SJ. Her sister, Cecilia, is a harpist studying at the Purcell School of music. Fiorella lives in Cambridge with her husband Edmund and son Hugh. Her hobbies include reading, music, amateur dramatics and travel.
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