Maribeth Slovasky

Maribeth Slovasky was born and raised in the Midwest. She earned her B.S. in education at Youngstown State University and her MA in Education at The Ohio State University.

Ms. Slovasky moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1993. After owning a Sylvan Learning Center franchise, she began freelancing and teaching online while raising her three children. She wrote two children’s books which were published through the Apple Bookstore.

She has written several memoirs beginning with the story of her father's experience in the US Navy at the end of World War II. She co-author Present for a Purpose with Sok-Khieng Lim Hardy about her experience as a Cambodian refugee during the Pol Pot era. Her next memoir was Duty. Honor. Corrections. written with Chuck Williams about his life as a corrections officer in the state of Ohio for more than 20 years. Her newest publication is Paradise to Prison: A True-Life Tragedy in Acapulco, an unbelievable tale of John Petersen, a Tacoma, WA, native who moved to Mexico in the 1990s, fell in love, and was unjustly arrested and spent time in a Federal Mexican prison because of it.The book is available digitally, in paperback, or as an audiobook..

Her autobiographical story is titled What's Your Can? 11 Strategies for Living a Spectacular Life with a Chronic Illness, She’s also published one novel, Midwest Secrets which is a series of four novellas about the strange things that happen in the heartland of America, the stories no one wants to share! She released a 2nd edition in 2025 and recorded audiobooks for all the stories.

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