JD Rosy was born in Toronto and raised in its suburbs. She attended business school, studied computers and did office work for 25 years. This series grew out of a ninth-grade English assignment in which the students were asked to keep a daily journal. Rosy continued writing the journals, which, over time, evolved into Rita's eight (8) years' worth of diaries. She replaced proper grammar with slang, but used actual dates and places. In 2003 a website (ritasdiary.com) which offers the e-book version of the annual diaries, running from 1981 to 1988. Book 1984 came out in hard copy format in 2009,