Sherryl Woods has been a journalist and television editor as well as an author. She has also been the coordinator for a motivational program for the employees of the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Medical Center. She was born in Arlington, Virginia. She graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in journalism. Her first book was published in 1982 under a pseudonym. She also used a pseudonym for her second book. In 1986, she left her job and became a full-time writer. She has written romances and mysteries. For fun, she gardens, plays tennis and attends the theater. She divides her time between Colonial Beach, Virginia and Key Biscayne, Florida.