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Andromeda
Romano-Lax is an avid traveler and ocean enthusiast who has sailed,
sea kayaked, hiked, mountain biked, hitchhiked, and been stranded
in many remote areas of North America — including Mexico’s
Sea of Cortez, Alaska, and Atlantic Canada — with her husband
and two young children.
Romano-Lax and her husband, Brian Lax, first dated on a Sea of Cortez
kayaking expedition 12 years ago. They dreamed of re-creating the
1940 John Steinbeck/Ed Ricketts expedition for over a decade before
their 2000 expedition, on which her new book is based. Sixty years
after Steinbeck’s journey, Romano-Lax, her husband and their
two “crewmembers” (their 5-year-old son and diaper-clad
2-year-old daughter) set out on a 2 month, 4,000-mile journey of
literary and ecological discovery in the Sea of Cortez.
Romano-Lax is the author of several travel guides. Her travel essays,
sports writing, and features have appeared in numerous national
and regional publications. She has been a staff writer for the Anchorage
Daily News and the Homer News.
Her academic background includes a Master’s degree in Marine
Management from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. She also recently
completed a science journalism fellowship at the Marine Biological
Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and she has taught creative writing
at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Presently, she is working on several books, including a children’s
book about the changing ecology of the North Pacific and a novel
about the suspicious disappearance of a piano prodigy in World War
II-era Spain. The latter — a departure from her nonfiction
“ocean beat” — is inspired by her own experiences
as an amateur cellist and her research into the lives of Spanish
musicians and composers.
See
an interview with the author at Salon.com.
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