Erin Van Rheenen

After earning a BA from UC Santa Cruz and a Masters from City University of New York, Erin Van Rheenen left the US to see the world. She ended up in Costa Rica, where she lived for several years, soaking up the green and researching her relocation guide, Living Abroad in Costa Rica and her children’s book, The Manatee’s Big Day. Her work has been anthologized and published in Bellevue Literary Review, Atlas Obscura, BBC Travel, Fiction, The Sun, and Best Women’s Travel Writing. For ten years, she was Senior Writer at The Exploratorium, a science museum. Erin lives in San Francisco.