Writer and teacher SANDRA BENTEZ received support to spend three and a half months in Mexico, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Missouri, New York and Washington to write Inventos, a work in which she will blend imagination and memory, fiction and fact. Inventos recreates the experience of Bentezs bicultural and bilingual life. It is about healing and hope after abandonment, divorce, physical injury and illness. This is an odyssey of search and discovery.