Hi, my name is Susannah Marie Muno but for as long as I can remember I have gone by Zana. In theory I am based out of a small beach town in Southern California called Hermosa Beach. But in reality I'm kind of like a nomad. For the past 5 years I usually spend the better part of October, November and December wherever in the world my boyfriend is playing professional volleyball at the time, right now that’s Ankara, Turkey. The rest of the year I’m training and competing as a professional beach volleyball player. Beach volleyball is most similar to tennis, except our paychecks include far less zeros. We spend March-ish to October-ish every year playing in different tournaments in the United States and around the world. So, outside of those very small commitments, I am also wildly excited about food, gardening, farming, cooking, traveling, clothes, being a home maker and hopefully one day a mom. Oh yeah, that reminds me, I also took what I call a professional athlete’s “sabatical” in January and February of this past year. I took a risk and applied for a food, agriculture and culinary education program in rurual Sicily. I got in and spent two months living in a village of 2000 called Valledolmo, living with a retired Sicilian couple that spoke no english and spent my days at school learning about wheat, pasta, wine, food history, cheese making, salt, olive oil and so so much more. It was hands down the best experience of my life.