Serving as associate editor and copy editor at FXExpress Publications, Inc., since 2008, Patricia Vanikiotis turned a love of literature and writing into a first career as a secondary language arts teacher and, later, as an editor and writer for several clients in the travel and publishing sectors. Based in Southern Oregon, Vanikiotis shares her love of the Pacific Northwest; gardening; good food and wine; and, of course, travel in her weekly Global Traveler blogs.