Rita Delude has a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing. She has published a novella, Kaleidoscope, Book Ten in the Escape from Reality Series. Coming soon to that series will be Book Fifteen, her full-length novel, Baby Blues. Among her other fiction credits are the short story "Bully" through Feather Dreams Press in their Through Their Eyes Anthology and "Aftershock" through Bella Tulip Publishing in their War Cry Anthology. She has also published numerous non-fiction magazine articles for education magazines. For two decades, she worked as a journalist and published feature stories and a twice-weekly news column.

She spent seventeen years teaching writing at Nashua Community College and retired as a full professor in 2014. On campus she started and co-edited the college literary magazine, Windows, which provided a venue for students to publish their poetry, short stories, memoirs, art work, and photography.