Eliot Greenspan is a poet, journalist, musician, and travel writer who took his backpack and typewriter the length of Mesoamerica before settling in Costa Rica in 1992. Since then, he has worked steadily as a travel writer, freelance journalist, and translator, and has continued his travels in the region. He is the author of Frommer's Belize, Frommer's Costa Rica, Costa Rica For Dummies, Frommer's Costa Rica Day By Day, and Frommer's Guatemala, as well as the chapter on Venezuela in Frommer's South America.