Norm Schriever

Norm Schriever is a Amazon best-selling author, pro blogger, cultural mad scientist, and enemy of the comfort zone. His latest work, "South of Normal," just won a silver medal at the coveted Nonfiction Book Awards.

He grew up in Connecticut and graduated from the University of Connecticut, where he was never accused of over-studying, and went on to live in North Carolina, Colorado and most recently in Northern California.

Dissatisfied with a conventional existence, Norm sold or donated all of his possessions and moved down to Costa Rica in 2011 to pursue his passion of writing. His first book was written in the sleepy surf town of Tamarindo with the help of his secret weapons: fresh ocean air and Baileys in his morning coffee. He then moved north up the coast to San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua where he wrote "South of Normal," a memoir about that experience. He now lives in Southeast Asia, where he is surviving super typhoons, writing his heart out, and taking photos of everything he eats.

He sees his words as a way to illuminate the commonalities of human existence, and thereby hopes to leave this planet a little better than how he found it.

-Huffington Post biography