Fe BencosmeFe Bencosme spent her formative years living in St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and in the Cibao region of the Dominican Republic before attending high school in New York, where she first experienced others' fixation on her mixed heritage.Fe has hd the good fortune to travel to nearly fifty countries across six continents, experiencing widely varying cultures, practices, and viewpoints and learning that humans cannot be reduced to any one category.Fe is the coauthor of The Adventure Guide to the Dominican Republic and the 2006 recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for cultural tourism writing. Read More Read Less