Amanda Baker was raised on the east coast of England. In 1988, she sailed across the Atlantic as part of a three-person delivery crew on a 43-foot yacht and has resided in the BVI ever since. In 2000, she started Virgin Portraits, specialising in children's portraits and wedding photography; and in 2006, she opened The Allamanda Gallery on Main Street in Tortola. With an emphasis on black-and-white, infrared and fine art photography, her images reflect the beauty of the British Virgin Islands.

Jane Bakewell is a freelance writer with a bachelor's degree in communications. Her love of travel and adventure brought her to the BVI in 1994, where she started a day charter snorkelling business, High Sea Adventures, with a local partner. Her articles have appeared in several publications in the BVI, including the BVI Welcome Tourist Guide, where she also served as associate editor. Bakewell currently runs her own freelance writing business, First Water Writers.

Elise Donovan is a native British Virgin Islander. Her work and life's passions focus on international development, human rights, diplomacy, diversity and issues related to Africa and the African Diaspora. Donovan has lived and worked in North America, the Caribbean and Africa. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from Carleton University in Ottawa and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University in New York.

Bobbi Fawcett was born in Australia and arrived in the BVI in 1989. Her first experience of the wonders of the BVI was as a crew member/coowner of a charter boat, introducing charter guests to the delights of the Territory and its pristine waters. Although she has lived in the BVI for many years, it was not until 1997 that she gave up chartering in favour of promoting the BVI to a much wider audience via media sales.

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J. Kevin Foltz is the staff photographer for HCP/ Aboard Publishing. An artist-in-residence at ArtCenter/South Florida on Miami Beach, Foltz travels extensively throughout the Caribbean, shooting photography for American Eagle Latitudes; Experience St. Maarten/St. Martin; Experience St. Thomas, St. John, St. Croix; and Experience the British Virgin Islands, amongst other publications. An award-winning photographer, his culinary, lifestyle and destination images capture the unique beauty of this island paradise.

Verna Penn Moll, MBE is a Virgin Islander, former head teacher, chief librarian and chief records management officer of the Islands who was educated in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. She has edited and written several books, including Land Acquisition by Virgin Islanders of African Descent from 1834 (2000), Methodism: 200 years of witness 1810–2010 (2010) and a prized collection of rare photos and artwork entitled Snapshots of the Past: Selections from the Old Pictures Exhibition, 2007, published by the National Archives in 2010.

Eugenia O'Neal is a British Virgin Islander whose writings have appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Business BVI, Property BVI and other local and regional publications. Her books include the nonfiction From the Field to the Legislature: A History of Women in the Virgin Islands (Greenwood Press, 2001), and the Caribbean-set romances, Just an Affair (Genesis Press, 2003) and Dido's Prize (Parker Publishing, 2008).

Clive Petrovic has lived in the BVI for more than 30 years, much of it aboard a sailing yacht. As a trained ecologist, he conducts research on a variety of topics — both on land and beneath the sea. He also promotes the development of yachting and marine tourism in the BVI. He is the director of Econcerns, Ltd., a company offering services in environmental consulting, education and tourism.

Julian Putley began his writing career whilst sailing around the world in the early 1980s. He's written magazine articles on the disappearance of aviatrix Amelia Earhart, the outer islands of Indonesia, exploring the uninhabited islands of the Chagos Archipelago and Africa's Zululand. In the Caribbean, a magazine article on pirates and Norman Island led to his first publication, The Virgins' Treasure Isle. He followed that up with a novel, Sunfun Calypso, a satire of Caribbean island life, and its recent sequel, Sunfun Gospel. In 2002, he published the first edition of the biennial The Drinking Man's Guide to the BVI.

Jim Scheiner has lived in the BVI for more than 25 years. A scuba instructor since 1975, Scheiner has logged almost 10,000 dives worldwide, usually with camera in hand. A well-known photojournalist, he specialises in underwater, aerial, yachting and lifestyle photography. Through his studio at Rainbow Visions Photography, he takes great pleasure in capturing the beauty and romance of a visiting couple's island wedding.