Maria Teresa Atallah was born in Camberwell, South-East London in 1968, and she grew up in Peckham, South-East London, where she attended Gloucester Grove Primary School and Peckham Girls' Secondary School. Her further education studies were at Vauxhall College of Building and Further Education, Birkbeck College - University of London, The Institute of Education and The Urban Theology College. She currently lives in Camberwell with her beloved husband and three children. Her role is a homemaker and volunteer in her local community. This is her second children's storybook in the series of EL DORADO CITY. Her first published work is the poetry book Life's Journey.