As the managing director of the Business Communications Group, Sally DiPaula oversees a wide variety of writing assignments for business, industry and government, including research reports, reports to Congress, newsletters and medical training programs. She also served as a ghost writer for the autobiography of an American business founder. She holds a master’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, and has taught technical writing and English composition at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. She has recently completed a Young Adult mystery entitled, Captain Moretti’s Daughter.

She and her husband live in Washington, DC. Once Upon a Time in Baltimore is her debut novel.