Linda Rice Lorenzetti is the Editorial Director of The Image Expedition.  An experienced writer with a diversity of publications to her credit, she published her first book The Birth of Coffee, by Random House in 2001.  She is also a contributing writer for an anthology entitled The Adventure of Food, published in November 1999.  As a correspondent for the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal she frequently writes about coffee.  She authored, Introduction to the Internet, an in-depth manual to explain its function and use when few people understood the technology. She also wrote a regular column for On the Internet magazine. She holds a degree in Human Resource Management, a certificate in Women's Studies and is a member of the Author’s Guild. Her special interests are indigenous crafts, trade beads -- and, of course, coffee.