Like her protagonist, Elise Richards, Samantha Rhodes has also studied Spanish. She received a B.A. in Spanish from SUNY Buffalo. She also lived many years in Berkeley, California, in an apartment with an uncanny resemblance to her heroine's.
She had a lot of fun making up the story of Passion's Professor, sprinkling in some of what she learned in her Spanish classes and what she experienced living in Berkeley, one of her favorite places in the United States. She hopes you enjoy reading Passion's Professor as much as she enjoyed writing it.