Maria Ruiz is a writer living in Sacramento, CA after spending ten years traveling around the world and living in Mexico for six years. She was the moderator of the Puerto Vallarta Writer's Group, and is currently working on a collection of short stories about the people and troubles she has encountered in her seventy years. She chaired the committee that produced an Anthology of short stories written by the members of the PVWG. Coast Lines Short Stories is available at Amazon and Amazon Kindle.Her book, I'll be in the Fourth Grade Forever!, is the memoir of a precocious army brat dragged from Pasadena to a war ravaged Europe, and on to the tender mercies of Junction City, Kansas by her father, a military aide to General Eisenhower. She is currently working on the 2013 Anthology written by members of the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group as well as several Books for Children.She has had stories printed in True Confessions, Green Prints and Kings River Life Magazine.Available at Amazon Kindle https://kindle.amazon.com/search/books?keywords=I%27ll+be+in+the+Fourth+Grade+Forever&start=1 and https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/23112Her blog can be found at: http://pastprimetravelers.blogspot.com/Her photos are at: http://community.webshots.com/user/langton64?vhost=community