Patricia Beiger is the owner of Amero Communications, a language services agency based in Toronto. Born in Peru, she lived in the UK, the US and Chile before finally settling down in Canada in 1997. Her love of writing started at an early age in the form of letters to loved ones abroad in the pre-Internet era. Her creative writing first appeared in a 1996 anthology of the Faculty of Letters of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and she is currently completing a Certificate in Creative Writing at University of Toronto while juggling the many other facets of life as a business owner, translator, wife and mother.