María Eugenia Mayobre was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1976. In 1998 she obtained her BA in Visual Arts from the UCAB and in 1999 moved to Barcelona, Spain, where she obtained her Master's Degree in Communications and Education.
Back in Venezuela, from 2001 to 2006, she worked as a copywriter, TV screenwriter and university teacher. She moved to Boston in January 2007 and obtained a Screenwriter Certificate from Emerson College in 2008.
Her first feature length screenplay, "Not Like Mom", won the 2009 Emerson Annual Screenwriting Prize and is currently a Semi-Finalist in the Blue Cat Screenplay Competition. Her short films "Amber Alert" and "Marry Me" won two www.filmaka.com short film competitions. Her commercials "First Word" and "First Step" were both nominated for New England Emmy Awards in 2009. In May 2010, her short story "Terrorista por Error" was selected by PEN Venezuela to be published in the fifth compilation of New Urban Narrative.
She currently lives in Boston, working as a freelance bilingual copywriter, translator and screenwriter. She works in collaboration with her husband, musician and movie director Rodrigo Monterrey. They both run the company Ropona Pictures.