Michele Roldán-Shaw is a self-taught artist, author and mad poet-rambler. She grew up on a farm in Long Beach, Washington, lived for a time in Sequim, and is currently based on the coast of South Carolina. During high school she entered a long love affair with self-publishing, and has worked as a freelance journalist for over a decade. She likes to camp out and travel around. In 2010 she started the Rambler’s Life Project as a way to make lemonade out of the recession and the fact that she did not have her own place—the resultant adventure stories are collected in two self-published hand-bound books.

Staying in tarantula-infested cabins and riding through Mexican jungles on a horse that has seizures because it needs a beer…Camping alone in the wilds of Central Florida…Falling in with gem miners and moonshiners in the Appalachian hills…Hearing live blues in wooly jukes of the Mississippi Delta before sleeping in her truck on a cotton plantation…The chance meeting with a stranger on the train that leads to the greatest discovery of her life…A devoted dog, a friend’s tragic death….These are but a few of the TRUE tales Michele is liable to tell!