James Raciti divides his time between Santa Fe and his home in Florida. Although a native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Raciti spent most of his adult life in Europe as an educator. He is also the author of Pulling No Ponchos: An Irreverent History of Santa Fe, Ask About Santa Fe: 464 Essential Questions and Their Answers About This City and the State of New Mexico, Ask About Florida, the biography Stephen Girard: America's Colonial Olympian, 1750-1831, and the poetry collection The Bird Chart Boy, all from Sunstone Press.
