Sebastian Modak is a freelance travel writer and multimedia journalist based in New York City. In 2019, he was selected to be the New York Times 52 Places Traveler, which saw him traveling to and reporting from all the destinations on the Times’ “52 Places to Go” list. Before that, he spent about three years…

James Kaiser is an award-winning travel writer and photographer whose work has appeared on the cover of National Geographic. He has written bestselling guidebooks to some of America’s most popular national parks, including Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Acadia, Zion, and Joshua Tree. James has also created a site featuring an unusual natural phenomenon, the Yosemite Firefall. How…

Monisha Rajesh is a British journalist and travel writer whose writing has appeared in Time magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair and The Sunday Telegraph, in which she wrote a monthly column about traveling the world by train. Her first book Around India in 80 Trains, was named one of The Independent’s top ten books on India, and her second book…

Henry Wismayer is a writer of non-fiction essays, commentary and features, with a particular focus on travel. His work has appeared in over 80 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post. He lives in South London with his partner and two children, How did you get started traveling? My…

Jeremy Seal writes non-fiction books which combine travel and history, often taking the culture of Turkey – a life-long interest – as their inspiration. His books include: A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat (Picador, 1995); The Snakebite Survivors Club: Travels Among Serpents (Picador, 1999); The Wreck at Sharpnose…

Alex Perry is the author of The Good Mothers, The Rift, Falling Off The Edge, and Lifeblood, as well as several ebooks. His journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Outside, Harper’s, The Guardian, TIME, Newsweek, Roads and Kingdoms, The Sunday Times magazine and others. Alex’s journalism has won a number of awards, and his…

Maggie Downs is an award-winning writer based in Palm Springs, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Palm Springs Life, and McSweeney’s, among other publications. It has been anthologized in The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True Stories from the World’s Best Writers and Best Women’s Travel Writing. Her first book is Braver…

Matthew Félix is an author, traveler, and podcast host. Matthew’s With Open Arms: Short Stories of Misadventures in Morocco has topped the Amazon Africa category, as well as the Morocco one. The 2019 BookLife Prize called Matthew’s debut novel about a young Spaniard’s awakening to his intuition, A Voice Beyond Reason, “(a) highly crafted gem.”…

Susan Purvis has taught wilderness medicine to everyone from the Secret Service to Sherpa guides in Nepal. Purvis and her search-and-rescue dog Tasha, whom she trained to save lives on the most avalanche-prone slopes in Colorado, launched dozens of rescue missions and received congressional recognition for their role in avalanche search and rescue. Purvis’ work…

Elaine Glusac is a Chicago-based freelance writer who specializes in travel. She’s a regular contributor to the New York Times travel section and writes frequently for AFAR, the Chicago Tribune, National Geographic Traveler and Virtuoso Life. Her work has also appeared, in Conde Nast Traveler, Departures, Smithsonian.com and the Wall Street Journal. In 2019, she…

A former reporter at the Seattle Times, Christopher Solomon has been a freelance writer since 2002, writing for the New York Times Sunday Magazine; National Geographic; Outside (where he’s a contributing editor); Runner’s World (ditto); and other publications. He was the 2018 Lowell Thomas Travel Writer of the Year, as selected by the Society of…