Michelle Gliottoni-Rodriguez wrote her first novel in high school. Fifteen years later, she's up to 29 and still counting. Fascinated with Gothic romances, she calls her greatest influences the works of the Brontë sisters and adds in an adoration for "The Phantom of the Opera" and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In August 2011, she published her first novel, a Gothic vampire romance titled Opera Macabre. Over the past two years, she has published another vampire romance and the first three novels in her series The Angel and Demon Chronicles. In addition to writing about vampires, angels and demons, she posts Phantom of the Opera stories online and has even had the honor of having them translated into German and Russian for worldwide fans. Due to the wonderful support of her Phantom "phans", she released her Phantom novel, The Opera Ghost Unraveled, and two collections of Phantom short stories titled Manifestations of a Phantom's Soul; a third collection of Manifestations will be out this fall.The other side of her life is a passion for music; she's also a trained opera singer with a Bachelor of Music from Saint Xavier University in Chicago.

She's won various awards and accolades in the Chicagoland area and has portrayed such roles as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, and Isabel in El Capitan.From writing at 4AM to practicing for her next performances at 7AM and then onward to being a full time wife and mom with an 8 year old, a 5 year old, and a 1 year old, one would call her life crazy, but she likes to think of it as "full" and blessed.