Tamara Faith Berger was born in Toronto. Tamara wrote porn stories for a living and attempted to make dirty films before publishing her first book, Lie with Me, in 1999. In 2001, The Way of the Whore, her second book, was published. In 2004, Lie with Me was made into a film starring Lauren Lee Smith. Maidenhead is her third book. Tamara is presently working on a novel about a Russian hired killer and socialist. She is also a graduate student at the University of British Columbia working on her Masters of Fine Arts.