Emily Placido, a native Northeasterner, was born in Manhattan and grew up, across the river, in New Jersey. She always had a passion for the written word, and as a teenager, Emily wrote her first short story. Then life got in the way and her natural path was impeded. At the insistence of her father, she enrolled in the Pre-Med program at Caldwell College. Her family moved to Florida in the late 1970s and Emily graduated from Florida Atlantic University. Soon thereafter, she married a New York transplant and they had two children.