Susana Romatz is a native of Saginaw, Michigan and has lived in Eugene, Oregon since 2002. She has been an elementary teacher at the Rudolf Steiner inspired Village Charter School for eight years and she enjoys cooking, writing, wildcrafting, gardening, drawing, painting, mushroom hunting, and spending time in nature. Susana earned a double major in Earth Science and Religious Studies, with a minor in Recreation, Parks, and Leisure from Central Michigan University and received her Teacher Training Certification from the Eugene Waldorf Teacher Training Program.