Virginia Baker was born on Christmas day in Neubruke, Germany, on an American military base, to Richard and Sara (Sally) Baker. An Army brat, she spent the next seventeen years moving between various bases in Germany and homes in California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire, and reveled in the adventure of it.

She had her prom in the Heidelberg castle overlooking the Rhine river, and graduated from Mannheim American High School in a ceremony held at the celebrated Worms Cathedral, where Martin Luther nailed his protest to the wall and birthed the Protestant branch of Christianity. From there, she went to college at Ricks in Rexburg, Idaho, and then graduated to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she received a Bachelor's of Science in Near Eastern Studies and a Masters of Arts in English Literature.

She has worked in the computer networking industry as an editor and writer in nearly every possible area of communications, including journalism (as the managing editor of the international trade magazine, LAN Times), public relations and marketing. In 1997 she started her own business and has, since that time, earned a living as a freelance writer.

She also runs a rescue sanctuary for parrots, finding loving homes for abused or neglected birds and fostering an aviary filled with macaws and cockatoos. Half a dozen cats grace her home at any given time. She would love to have dogs, too, but knows they would be terrorized by the cats and might eat the birds. 

She has chosen history as her playground, because nothing is more frightening than what people have done to each other, and few things more inspiring than what we have done for one another.

When she’s not writing, she spends time in her garden in Utah, taking pictures of parrots eating the berries in her mock-apple trees, and playing with her family in the mountains.