Telefina was born in 1982 in the cold, cold north of Canada. She quickly moved to Winnipeg, where she's spent her life growing up.

Telefina is a natural academic. She tried living in the real world, but it was not for her. She holds honours degrees in Mathematics and Physics, and enjoys solving intellectual puzzles. A lifelong scholar of philosophy, she loves to wax philosophically on subjects in which most people have no interest.