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Carol M. Bareuther, R.D. is a U.S. Virgin Islands based freelance writer and Registered Dietitian whose food, cooking and nutrition; travel; sailing and sportfishing articles have appeared in local, regional, national and international publications such as All At Sea, Cooking Light, Cooking Pleasures, Deli Business, Fancy Food, Marlin, Produce Business, Sailing World, Saltwater Sportsman, Shape, Southern Boating, The Triton, Today’s Dietitian, Today’s Diet & Nutrition, Vegetarian Times, and Veggie Life. An author as well as a journalist, Bareuther has published two books, Virgin Islands Cooking and Sports Fishing in the Virgin Islands. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and Boating Writer’s International. Mother of 18-year-old Rian and 15-year-old Nikole, and owner of a miniature daschund named Max, Bareuther enjoys cooking, swimming, hiking and reading in her spare time. Her husband, Dean L. Barnes, is an attorney with the Virgin Islands’ Department of Justice and professional photographer who illustrates Bareuther’s works.

Chris Goodier is a freelance writer and photographer whose specialties are waterfront lifestyles and leisure pursuits. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of travel publications and websites, and she is Editorial Director of All At Sea, a 104-page, monthly nautical magazine distributed throughout the Caribbean. A native of Dallas, Texas, she grew up in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. She worked for airlines, cruise lines and travel agencies for 18 years and earned a Certified Travel Counselor (CTC) credential through the George Washington University Study Group. Goodier traveled to more than 50 countries before moving in 1999 to her favorite island, St. Croix, and now divides her time between the Caribbean and the coast of North Carolina. She has served on the Board of Directors of Whim Plantation Museum and the St. Croix Yacht Club.

Joanne Curcio-Quiñones traded in her snowshoes for a snorkel in 1990 when she packed up and moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was in St. Croix that she began her editorial career as co-publisher of a politics and entertainment weekly called The Island Melee. After nearly a decade as a “proud Crucian by choice,” Curcio–Quiñones moved to marry her soulmate Darby in Puerto Rico, where they live with their feisty toddler, Enrico, and Puerto Rican coconut retrievers, Cleo and Lola. She is a freelance editor and writer for several Puerto Rico and international newspapers and magazines, specializing in Caribbean travel, restaurants, food and wine, and technology. When she is not writing, she is sampling food and wine with her hubby, playing pat-a-cake with Enrico or experiencing the Caribbean. Even after all this time, Curcio–Quiñones still considers St. Croix home.

Twenty-four-year St. John resident Lynda Lohr freelances for numerous publications, including Fodor’s Caribbean guidebooks and the V.I. Source Internet newspaper. She’s the author of the Eyewitness Top 10 Guide to the Virgin Islands and the editor of Island News, a newsletter for people with a strong interest in the Virgin Islands. When she’s not at her desk, she enjoys the beach, St. John’s hiking trails and sunrises over Coral Bay, the same reason visitors flock to St. John. Saturday mornings find her in her kitchen baking the family’s weekly supply of bread. She’s also an inveterate traveler, heading off to interesting destinations every year for a much-needed break from St. John. She recently spent three weeks on a campervan vacation to New Zealand, visited Iceland and Denmark for a couple of weeks the year before and is heading out to Death Valley on her next trip. She lives at Ajax Peak with her “other half” and their three cats.