L. Farrah Furtado was born and raised in Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Both her parents immigrated to Canada in the 1960’s from Azores, Portugal to escape poverty and Salazar’s fascist regime. FURTADO has been living in Taiwan for over ten years. She is an author, screenplay writer, teacher and yogi.

HER APPARITIONS & OTHER HUMAN LONGINGS is a character-driven coming of age allegory and takes place in the 1980’s disenfranchised era after the “Flower Power” movement.