Aimee Ferris

Aimee Ferris left the corporate world after her company made an ill-fated decision to send her to Hawaii on a ten-week-business trip. After living in Fiji, she joined a regatta and sailed the South Pacific landing as a PADI divemaster on the Great Barrier Reef, before relocating to the Caribbean to try her hand at training dolphins. Skydiving, playing a dead body in a dinner theatre, white water rafting, and feeding sharks underwater also made the list of prospective occupations before she settled on a career of making stuff up. She now juggles freelancing for a few dozen national magazines (where she does not make stuff up), photographing her travel work and writing books for teens.