Judy Blankenship is an award-winning photographer, writer and editor who lived many years in Canada and Latin American before settling back in the U.S. in Portland, Oregon. Since 2005 she lives half years in Cañar, Ecuador with her husband Michael Jenkins. Her photographs are in the collections of the national library and museums in Costa Rica and Ecuador. She has authored two books about her life and work in Ecuador: Cañar: A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador, short-listed for the 2006 Oregon Book Awards, and Our House in the Clouds: Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador (2013) both published by University of Texas Press. She is co-editor with Andrew Wilson of Tell Mother I’m in Paradise: Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador by Ana Margarita Gasteazoro, University of Alabama Press (2022) and a Spanish version, Díganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraíso: Memorias de una prisionera politíca en El Salvador published by Aristata Press (2022). Photography awards include the Oregon Arts Council, Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation. She has received three Fulbright research and teaching fellowships for her photography work in Ecuador (2000, 2005, 2013-14) and an Organization of American States award. Her digital and physical photography archives from her work in Central America and Ecuador are housed at the Benson Library Latin American Collection, University of Texas, Austin.