Sandra Shaw Homer has lived in Costa Rica for 29 years, where she has taught languages and worked as a translator and environmental activist. For several years she wrote a regular column, “Local Color,” for the English-language weekly The Tico Times. Her writing has appeared in several print and on-line literary and travel journals, as well as her own blog, Writing from the Heart. Her first travel memoir, Letters from the Pacific, received excellent Publishers Weekly and Kirkus reviews. A brief inspirational memoir of survival, The Magnificent Dr. Wao, is available as a Kindle Book, and a second travel memoir, Journey to the Joie de Vivre, is available in both paperback and Kindle editions. Evelio's Garden: Memoir of a Naturalist in Costa Rica will be published by Atmosphere Press in September, 2019.