Lyn Kidder and her husband, Frederic Moras, left her home state of Pennsylvania in 1989, heading west in a VW Vanagon with no fixed plans except to try and work and see the West. They spent seven years traveling and working (and skiing!) in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Alaska and Wyoming. Lyn then began writing, with Frederic contributing the photography.

Lyn has been published in Alaska Magazine, Alaska Geographic, Ceramics Monthly, Wyoming Farmer-Stockman, Medical Laboratory Observer, New Mexico Magazine and New Mexico Business Journal. While living in Barrow, Alaska (300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, right next door to Santa Claus) she wrote "Barrow, Alaska from A to Z," the only guidebook to that northernmost community, and "Tacos on the Tundra," the story of the world's northernmost Mexican restaurant and the crazy woman who started it all, Fran Tate.

Lyn and Frederick have now settled in the cool pines of Ruidoso, New Mexico, where they are discovering the many wonders of the Land of Enchantment. Lyn gets out to area bookstores to do signings of "Tacos on the Tundra" so watch for her - you'll know her by her sequinned sombrero!