About Fe

A life across borders.

Fe Bencosme has been crossing borders all her life. A native New Yorker, she was raised between her parents’ homelands: amid the trade winds of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands and the rolling hills of the Cibao in the Dominican Republic. That early movement between places became the foundation for a life of teaching, writing, and travel across nearly sixty countries.

Across her books, talks, and travel projects, Fe explores how culture, nationality, memory, and history shape identity. She draws on those encounters to invite a broader conversation about equal citizenship, shared humanity, and what it means to be an American.

Fe is a recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing.