Craig Mod is a writer and photographer who has called Japan home for most of the last twenty years. He has written for Eater, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, WIRED Magazine, California Sunday Magazine, and others. He is the author of the books Kissa by Kissa (2020), Koya Bound: Eight days on the Kumano Kodo…

Lauren Keith is a freelance travel writer and guidebook author whose work has been published in Lonely Planet, Smithsonian Magazine, Al Jazeera, Atlas Obscura, AFAR, the Independent and elsewhere. She worked for several years as Lonely Planet’s editor for Middle East and North Africa, and she continues to travel the region widely, from scouting out…

Teresa Lynn Hasan-Kerr is an AmeriCorps VISTA for Literacy Mid-South, which aims to eradicate illiteracy in Memphis. She has a background in teaching ESOL and writing travel lit. Her work has been in Lonely Planet, Culture Trip, Morocco World News, Coldnoon, Past-Ten, Refinery29, and Wry Times. How did you get started traveling? I moved a…

Ash Bhardwaj is a travel writer and filmmaker from Britain, who tells stories of adventure, history and current affairs. He is a Telegraph Travel columnist, and the co-founder and presenter of The First Mile podcast. He has reported for the BBC World Service and Radio 4; written for publications including British GQ, The Sunday Times, and…

Joe Henley is a freelance writer, scriptwriter, author and musician. Originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Joe moved to Taiwan straight out of journalism school in 2005. Since then, he’s reported from Taiwan, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, China, Cuba, and various other locales around the world for print, online, and television media. His latest book, Migrante, is…

Andy Trincia is an American freelance writer and editor based in Romania. Having visited nearly 60 countries, he writes mainly about travel, with special focus on Eastern Europe. He recently edited three European history books, and a travel guide focused on Jewish history in Romania. Before embarking on a lengthy career in corporate communications and…

Mag Dimond has been a world traveler since her mother took her to live in Italy from ages eleven to fourteen. Now in her seventies, she continues traveling, the most recent adventure being to Machu Picchu and the Amazon jungle. She is a classical pianist, photographer, gourmet cook, animal rescuer, and philanthropist. Her travel book…

Gerry O’Shea’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic Traveler, Men’s Journal, AFAR, Hemispheres, Roads & Kingdoms, and several other publications. ­He has surfed and cycled six continents, climbed mountains in East Africa, and fallen down hills in Laos. He once slept through an Indonesian earthquake and twice has been robbed by…

A former entertainment reporter, James Wong began travel writing in 2014. From 2016 to 2018 he wrote for Singapore Airlines’ in-flight publication, Silverkris. After that, he freelanced for titles across Asia including The Japan Times, Time Out: Hong Kong, Time Out: Singapore, Esquire Singapore and Esquire Malaysia. Today he is based in New York City…

Jason Cochran is the author of Here Lies America (Well Hall Books) and Editor-in-Chief of Frommers.com. He has twice been awarded the top honors in the Lowell Thomas Awards for his travel guide books and has been a regular writer for Entertainment Weekly, Travel + Leisure, USA Today and many others. A graduate of the…

Angelique Stevens is Six-Nations Native American living in Upstate New York, where she teaches creative writing, literature of genocide, and race literatures. Her nonfiction can be found in or is forthcoming in LitHub, The New England Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and a number of anthologies. She has been chosen for several writing awards and fellowships,…