Giovanna Fiorino-Iannace was born in the Bronx, New York and studied at Fordham University and CUNY Graduate Center, majoring in Art History and Italian Studies. She has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1990 in the Antonio Ratti Textile Center. She has been married for 19 years and has 3 children, and enjoys singing in her parish choir, knitting, and reading various genres of fiction and non-fiction books during her free time.