While she at one time majored in Illustration at (Name Withheld) College in San Fransisco, she gave up pursuit of a BFA (Big F-ing Attitude) when the Substitute-Interim-temporary-Illustration Director told her she couldn't draw (Note: she'd been a working illustrator for 8 years prior to this revelation).

This leaves her with a shelf full of Watson Guptill art books and the ability to claim she's "Self Taught".

Her recent projects have included illos for Wizards of The Coast's "Vampire-The Eternal Struggle...Dark Sovereigns" card set (Released 12/95) and graphics for the popular Macintosh Shareware game "Realmz" and it's scenario modules. Most recently, she contributed to the "Darkness Unveiled" Player's Guide, also from Wizards of The Coast, and the "Ancient Hearts" and "Sabbat" expansion sets. This allowed her to continue her "Vampyre" theme paintings, which in the past have appeared in the White Wolf books "Vampire-The Masquerade" and "The Anarch Cookbook".

She also collaborated with partner Pat Tolen on cards for WOTC's Netrunner game. (If you want to see WOTC use more of Max's work, please write to them here!)