Maria Gonnella was born and raised in Newark, NJ. Her love of writing began as a young girl attending Abington Avenue and St. Francis Xavier Grammar Schools, and continued through ...view moreMaria Gonnella was born and raised in Newark, NJ. Her love of writing began as a young girl attending Abington Avenue and St. Francis Xavier Grammar Schools, and continued through her college years. Her imagination would take her to faraway places, without ever leaving her room in the Steven Crane Housing Projects, the only place she ever called “home.”
After the death of her father, she developed a passion for genealogy research. Working together with her husband, Michael, they travelled to Italy and compiled and documented their ancestry lineage for their children and future generations, as a memorable tribute to their parents.
In the early 1980s, she moved to the suburb of Nutley, NJ, where her and her husband raised their three children and currently reside.view less