Stuart McDonald is an Australian travel writer based in Indonesia. He cofounded Travelfish in 2004, and has been writing about the region since 1997. He currently lives in Bali with his partner Samantha, their two kids, and their dog Skye Govinda. How did you get started traveling? I started traveling early, off the back of…

Tim Bascom is author of a novel set in the Philippines, two collections of essays, and two prize-winning memoirs about years spent in East Africa as a youth: Chameleon Days and Running to the Fire.  His essays have won editor’s prizes at The Missouri Review and Florida Review, and have also been selected for the…

Anne P. Beatty’s essays on her experiences in the Peace Corps in Nepal, along with various other pursuits related to traveling and teaching, appear in the American Scholar, Salon, Shenandoah, Creative Nonfiction, and elsewhere. Her work was listed among The Best American Essays 2019 Notable Essays. She lives with her husband and three children in…

C.L. Stambush is the author of Untethered: A Woman’s Search for Self on the Edge of India—A Travel Memoir. She lived in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for six years, traveling by foot, train, truck, bus, boat, camel, donkey cart, and motorcycle. After returning to the United States, she was recruited to…

John Krich was raised in New York City, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years before 20 years in Asia, some working as a feature writer and food columnist for the Asian Wall Street Journal. He now calls Lisbon, Portugal his home in expat exile. His books include Bump City: Winners and…

Daniel Stables is a freelance travel writer based in the United Kingdom. He has authored or contributed to more than 30 travel books on destinations across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, for Rough Guides and DK Eyewitness, among other publishers. He also writes travel articles for publications including BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, and Lonely…

JoAnna Haugen is a writer, speaker, solutions advocate, and founder of Rooted. Early in her travel writing career, she published hundreds of articles in more than 60 print and online commercial publications, worked in editorial roles for several B2B travel publications, and assisted dozens of travel brands with content marketing. Over the last several years,…

Carey Baraka is a writer from Kisumu, Kenya. His writing about literary culture, food, travel, books, and politics, among other things, has appeared on TripSavvy, A Long House, Rest of World, Literary Hub, the Johannesburg Review of Books, Electric Literature, Serious Eats, Foreign Policy, and Gay Magazine, among other places. He is working on his…

Andrea Sachs majored in art history at Tufts University, where she wrote about arts and culture for the school paper — mainly to get free food and drinks. She received a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism (where she learned that journalists should never accept freebies). In between, she lived in…

Jan Morris was one of the most celebrated travel writers of the twentieth century. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City. Born James Humphry Morris, she published under her birth name until…

Graduating from Sacred Heart University with a bachelor’s in Marketing and Global Studies, Dana Givens has always had an interest in exploring different cultures and countries. She has worked for many brands as a copywriter and content creator for digital media platforms and notable brands. As a journalist, she has been published in top-tier publications…