Maija Gegeris was born in 1942 in Riga, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Latvia).
[7] Wayne Thiebaud became her graduate advisor; she finished her master's degree at UC Davis in 1965.
[8] In 1965, Peeples-Bright had her first exhibition, held at the Candy Store Gallery located in Folsom, California, a small city near Sacramento.
[10] Peeples-Bright showed at Candy Store Gallery regularly throughout the three decades it was open; along with Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, David Gilhooly, Clayton Bailey, and Peter VandenBerge, among others.
[20] Maija Peeples-Bright's first marriage was to artist and professor David Zack (1938–1995), whom she lived with in San Francisco,[1][7] and later in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
[5] In 2000, she married Bill Bright, a close friend of Earl Peeples, and they moved to Rocklin, California.