Sylvia Montgomery Shaw is a Mexican-American writer and scholar who was born in Mexico, grew up fully bilingual, majored in Spanish literature as an undergraduate, and earned a doctorate degree in English. Her teaching career has taken her to the University of Rhode Island, Clark University, Boston University, and Bryn Athyn College. She is the author of Paradise Misplaced, the first book in the Mexican Eden trilogy, and is in the process of completing the final installment, Planting Eden. She currently lives in Sutton, Massachusetts.