Finola McMahon is an MA student in the department of English and the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Finola McMahon was born near Houston, Texas. She completed her BA in Emerging Media and Communication at The University of Texas, Dallas, with a minor in Computer Science. She worked as a writing tutor while at UTD and continued to do so in the year before attending UIUC.