Rosario Drucker Davis was born in Mexico to an American father and Mexican mother. At the age of eleven, she moved with her family to Lexington, Kentucky where her father took a position as professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky.  Rosario earned a B.A. in linguistics at the University of Kentucky, an M.A. in English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona, and an M.A. in French literature at the University of Cincinnati.  During the 2007-08 academic year, she was a visiting teaching assistant at the English Department at the University of Angers, France. Rosario teaches Spanish and French in the Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures Department at the University of Cincinnati.