Rosario Toledo was born and raised in Mexico City to a self-made real estate king.  She attended a prestigious private school in Mexico City along with her four older sisters. Toledo immigrated to the United States when she was twenty in order to pursue a higher education at the University of Texas.  She graduated with a degree in journalism, and eight years later pursued another degree from University of Tennessee and received her MFA in Creative Writing from NYU.  Today, Toledo is pioneering her career as a creative writer, her favorite literary themes being love, alienation, marginalization, and memories of Mexico and her Hispanic heritage.