About Crystal
From the mountain passes of Southeast Asia to the steamy jungles of Africa, one girl braves pygmy warriors, crackhouses, angry hippopotami and the six-armed man to seek out the world’s greatest adventures. It’s Crystal, daughter of a South Vietnamese freedom fighter and a one-man band from Montana. There is little left on the planet that she hasn’t already eaten and nothing she won’t try. When it comes to dining, she lives by one simple rule alone - “When in doubt, spit it out!” She holds a record for hosting the largest variety of parasites in her bowels at one time while she was in the Peace Corps. She has sweated and hallucinated through many feverish nights alone, marveling at the painful beauty of the mysterious organism we call the virus, especially those which remain uncatelogued by modern science. Crystal was a Hurricane Katrina displacee and now works in public health research, serving the reproductive health and contraceptive needs of women in developing countries. In her spare time, she trains as an endurance athlete. She lives in Durham with two dogs, a cat, and her husband, Clinton.
