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Education: UC, Berkeley. graduated in 1963 with a BA in Political Science & French. Received another BA in Art at Portland State University in 1982
My first book, Europe with Two Kids and a Van was published in 1973. It was inspired by my husband's and my travels in a Volkwagon Bus all around Europe before returning to Ferndale, California, where I started a Jewelry design and retail business. In 1977 we moved to Oregon and opened my second custom jewelry store in Gresham Oregon. After selling my business in 1988, I went on to be a painter and sculptor, exhibiting and teaching art as a resident artist in the schools. In 2006, my husband and I traveled to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and eventually bought a house there. In 2017 we started an NGO, Latin American Relief Fund to support a migrant shelter, Albergue ABBA for migrants and refugees. see: latinamericanrelieffund.org. I continued to enjoy writing short stories and some poetry, but it was only after a few years of taking writing workshops both at the annual San Miguel Writers Conference and in Portland that I had the courage to write my first novel, Under the Salvadoran Sun, published in 2014.
Travel, hiking, kayaking, reading, writing prose and poetry, and enjoying my grandchildren. I have 4 grandchildren.
I have a theater background and am not shy about being interviewed on podcasts. I enjoy and am able to talk with podcast hosts about numerous subjects such as my Scandinavian heritage which has influenced my most recent book, my working in France, the important role foreign languages have played in my professional and personal life, traveling, living in Mexico, all which have influenced my writing career as well as my past careers as an artist, jewelry designer, and art teacher.
There's much to see here. So, take your time, look around, and learn all there is to know about me and please let me know if I can be of any help to you for future news articles, pod casts, etc.
In 1972 I published my first book, a travel memoir, entitled Europe with Two Kids and a Van, all about camping in a Volkswagen Van throughout Europe from Germany, to Scandinavia, England, France, Spain and Italy with my husband and two small daughters, ages three and a half and five years. It was a wonderful adventure.
After raising a family, starting a Fine Jewelry Design Business, being a professional painter and sculptor, then moving to Oregon and eventually to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, I finally had time to write a late in life love story wrapped around the issue of immigration.
Sher Davidson, Author
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