Shawna Winters-Ratz grew up in the remote jungles of Tahiti, French Polynesia at a time when few people knew how to locate in on a map. From a very young age she began traveling extensively from the green valleys of Tahiti to the Alps in France and the Rocky beaches of Samoa. A wife and mother of two adult children, she currently lives in Houston with her husband Michael and precocious chihuahua named Rita. When Shawna is not writing, she is most likely painting or drawing illustrations.
