Marianne Arkins was born "at a very young age" in Sacramento, California, where her mother says she was reading proficiently by the age of two. She wrote her first book at the age of ten and never looked back. She wrote her second and third novels when she was fifteen (a sci-fi romance) and seventeen (romantic suspense) and entered one into the Avon Teen Novel Writing contest, in which she finaled.

She has since published several short stories with The Wild Rose Press and has a novel under contract with Samhain Publishing.