About Amy Racina

Amy Racina was born in 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland. She now lives in Healdsburg, California with two cats and her teenage son, Sam.

After working as a freelance graphic artist for two decades, with a specialty in package design, she then became a writer and entrepreneur, and currently runs three small businesses.
Her writing has been featured in such diverse publications as Wee Wisdom, Loving More Magazine, 52 Best and SAW Mail 5020.

Rarely is she without a cause to support, a group to organize, an enthusiasm to pursue. Active in local organizations of various sorts, she leads hikes and women’s groups, organizes community events, and participates in a women’s writing group.

An eager traveler, she has journeyed all over the world by herself. She especially loves camping, hiking, and backpacking.

Introduced to backpacking at 16, Amy began soloing in her early twenties. She has trekked hundreds of miles through the wilderness that she loves, especially in the high country of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and particularly in Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Parks. Just nine months after the near-fatal fall chronicled in Angels in the Wilderness, Amy headed again for the wilderness with her pack, backpacking once again. The medical professionals who had treated her were amazed, but people who knew her were not. They had no doubt that she would defy the odds and hike once again in the wilderness she loves.