María Ruiz Scaperlanda

María Ruiz Scaperlanda is an award-winning journalist, author, and blogger whose work has been broadly published. In 2016, María received the St. Francis de Sales Award--the highest honor given by the Catholic Press Association to an individual, fr her "outstanding contributions to Catholic journalism." María is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)--and has traveled on international assignments to the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and now Africa. María and her husband of 37 years, Michael, reside in Norman, Oklahoma. They have four adult children, a Siberian Husky named Diego, and ten grandchildren. María blogs at: DaybyDayWithMaria.blogspot.com/.