Photography
Sylvia is an award-winning travel photographer, and her photos have appeared in The Washington Post, on Lonely Planet, disability-related magazines, and in her two accessible travel photography books. One of her professional goals is to increase representation of wheelchair users in commercial print media.
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Books
Since 2005, Ms. Longmire has been a subject matter expert on Mexico’s drug war and border security. She is the author of two books on these issues: Cartel (2011) and Border Insecurity (2014), and currently writes for American Military University’s InHomeland Security site.
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Her accessible travel writing has been featured in The New York Times, New Mobility magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, and Lonely Planet, She has published four accessible travel-related books – including the award-winning solo wheelchair travel memoir What Happened to You?, the award-winning definitive guide Everything You Need to Know About Wheelchair Accessible Cruising, and a book on how wheelchair users can earn money writing from home, Blogging While Disabled.