Ana Livingston Paddock grew up in La Antigua, Guatemala and Zamorano in rural Honduras and later was educated in the USA and Sweden where she studied ceramic design at Konstfack. She has a Masters in Art and Education from Stanford University and currently divides her time between Guatemala and Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, Mexico. Paddock is currently working on a seriese of photography and oral history account of her neighbors in Mata Ortiz.