The author is a member of the National League of American Pen Women, The Portrait Society of America, Romance Writers of America, The Society of the Four Arts, The International Society, The Round Table, and others. She has been knighted into the prestigious 900-year-old order of The Knights Hospitallers of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, and also the Byzantine Order of St. George, Knights of Malta.
M.E.Gardner is the daughter of world renowned portrait artist Frederick Roscher, and is presently writing his biography, to be titled The Portrait King. Also a homemaker, she lives in Florida with her husband, industrialist William Gardner, dubbed "Mr. Helium," the founder of Gardner Cryogenics, now a division of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.