Venturing in Italy - About the Author

BARBARA J. EUSER is a former political officer with the Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State. As a director of the International Community Development Foundation, she has worked on projects in Bosnia, Somaliland, Zimbabwe, India and Nepal. Her articles and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies. She is the author of Somaliland; Children of Dolpo; Take 'Em Along: Sharing the Wilderness with Your Children; The Northern California Plantscaper ( Gibbs-Smith 2010); co-author of A Climber's Climber: On the Trail with Carl Blaurock and editor of Bay Area Gardening and Gardening Among Friends. In 2005, she organized the 2005 Writers Workshop on the Canal du Midi in France. She contributed to and edited Floating Through France: Life Between Locks on the Canal du Midi, an anthology of essays by workshop participants. A founder of Writers Workshops International, she contributed to and co-edited Venturing in Southern Greece: The Vatika Odysseys, Venturing in Ireland: Quest for the Modern Celtic Soul and Venturing in Italy: Travels in Puglia, Land between Two Seas. She is married and has two grown daughters.

CONNIE BURKE left San Francisco, California in 1979. She set out for Ithaka, hoping to make her journey a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. She has yet to return. On the way, she received a B.A. in English Literature, M.A. in the Humanities, and a Ph.D. in Education. She joined the English Faculty of the University of Maryland, European Division and The American College of Greece. Then she went on to establish and direct The Burke Institute for English Language Studies in Piraeus, Greece. Retired from academia, Connie resides in Pireaus where she served as the first President of Habitat for Humanity, Greater Athens. When she is not hammering nails and cleaning paint brushes, she spends her time reading, writing, and celebrating life in the southern Peloponnesus. A founder of Writers' Workshops International, she is co-editor of Venturing in Southern Greece: The Vatika Odysseys, Venturing in Ireland: Quest for the Modern Celtic Soul and Venturing in Italy: Travels in Puglia, Land between Two Seas.

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