Heather Lowell

Heather Lowell was born and raised in Southern California.
She attended Georgetown University in Washington D.C.,
where she began her love affair with foreign languages,
international politics, and off-the-beaten path travel.
She's traveled by bus, train, and boat through the
developing world, meeting local people and practicing her
language skills—the occasional face-to-face encounter with
livestock was an added bonus. While her 'list of things to
do before settling down' is still quite long, Heather has
already crossed off hiking the Andes, going up the Amazon
River, back-packing through Australia and New Zealand,
SCUBA diving, bungee jumping, white-water rafting, caving,
and jumping out of an airplane.

In the 1990's, Heather studied in Brazil, volunteered as an
English teacher in Hungary, and earned a Master's Degree in
International Development. She briefly considered becoming
a professional traveler before deciding that defaulting on
her student loans wasn't a lofty career goal. Instead, she
served her time in a cubicle as a project manager in
Information Technology, where her life closely paralleled
that of the comic strip Dilbert. When the tech bubble burst
and the stock market plummeted, Heather took it as sign
that she should get out of the corporate world and follow
her dream of writing. She hasn't looked back since that day.

Despite an adventurous past, Heather Lowell now considers
herself to be a dedicated homebody—with a car, mortgage,
and dog to prove it. She currently lives in Arizona, where
she is working on her next book.