Stacy Allen holds an Advanced Open Water Diver certificate, with specialties in wreck diving and night diving.

She has traveled to Italy many times. Her passion for adventure has taken her to six continents, in order to explore over 50 countries.  She has studied many languages, but is most comfortable with Italian and French, having studied both for many years.

Preferring the exotic to the mundane, her adventures have included – to name a few - hot air ballooning in Egypt; hiking Maccu Piccu; riding in the Sahara atop a camel named Cinderella; diving with manatees; riding horseback in the national forest above Barcelona; hiking up to the Parthenon in Athens; climbing the mountain in Delphi, Greece; walking on the great wall of China; Hiking to 12,000 feet up to Tiger’s Nest in the Himalayas; cruising up the Nile River; exploring the Galapagos islands; floating in gondolas in Venice; standing on top of the Eiffel Tower; climbing down into the Red Pyramid in Dashur, Egypt; attending cooking school at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris; camping in the Serengeti; touring the island of Zanzibar; studying Italian in Castleraimondo, Italy and crossing the Atlantic on four different ships.

Stacy Allen also plays guitar and sings, when she isn’t traveling around the world in search of new locales and new stories.

Her love of history, treasure hunting, Italy, archaeology and wreck diving helped her craft Expedition Indigo, the first in the Riley Cooper series.

She has attended writing retreats in Ireland, on a Panama Canal Cruise, in Maui, Hawaii and Eugene, Oregon.  She has published two short stories, included in the Anthologies Ship’s Log – Writings at Sea and Lies and Limericks, Inspirations from Ireland.

Ms. Allen is married and lives just north of Atlanta, Georgia.