BRENDA COFFEE is a published writer, photographer, and filmmaker with a BA in journalism and film. She’s the creator of two Top 10 websites, including 1010PARKPLACE.COM, home to the popular BRENDA’S BLOG, where you’ll find relevant conversations about finances, friendships, life, sex, culture, and interviews with inspiring women that appeal to the wealthiest, best-educated, most powerful demographic in history: women over 50.

Coffee was the first journalist to drive and fire the Army’s M-1 tank. She did a cable-arrested landing and a catapult takeoff on an aircraft carrier and was on part of the maiden voyage of the USS Dallas nuclear submarine. She's an adventurer who raced Porsches on the SCCA Solo 1 circuit for nine years, scuba dove and took underwater photographs, searched for minerals and crystals in abandoned silver mines, and hacked her way through three canopy jungles searching for unexcavated Maya ruins in Mexico.

She's a motivational speaker at conferences and literary events, a businesswoman, and former managing consultant and board member of a public company she sold to Big Pharma. MAYA BLUE A Memoir of Survival is her first memoir. She resides in Texas.