Eddy Ancinas

Eddy Ancinas grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and on a nearby cattle ranch. A non-fiction writer specializing in Latin American travel, she has published articles on Argentina, Chile, and Peru in the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and LA Times, plus six editions of Fodor’s Argentina Guide. Her story of a cattle roundup in Elko, Nevada, won the 2010 Nevada Magazine Writers’ Contest. Her award-winning book on the history of two ski areas (now one: Alpine Meadows and Palisades-Tahoe), Tales from Two Valleys: Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, was first published in 2013; a 2nd edition came out in 2019. Eddy has an Argentine husband and is fluent in Spanish. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.