Nick Hunt is the author of three travel books about walking and Europe – Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water – a work of ‘gonzo ornithology’, The Parakeeting of London, and a collection of short fiction, Loss Soup and Other Stories. His articles and features have been published…

Emily Pennington is Outside’s parks and travel columnist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet, Adventure Journal, REI, Passport Magazine, and Backpacker, to name a few. She’s visited nearly every national park in the U.S., and her new book Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way…

Andrew X. Pham is an independent journalist and author. At various periods of his life, he has worked as an aircraft engineer, researcher, technical writer, startup founder, farmer, food critic, pizza chef, bungalow builder, small business owner, literary panelist, teacher, and an MFA faculty. He is a Whiting Writer and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is…

Bob Payne is a freelance travel writer who has visited more than 140 countries and had his work appear in such publications as Outside, Men’s Journal, Islands, and Bon Appétit. He was a long-time contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveler, where he believes he remains the only one of their writers to put the cost…

Bruce Kirkby is an adventurer, writer and photographer. With journeys spanning more than eighty countries and thirty years, Kirkby’s accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo’s northern coast and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. A columnist…

Travis Levius is a freelance travel writer and content creator loosely based between London and Atlanta. He’s written for several publications and outlets including Travel + Leisure, TIME, Condé Nast Traveler, Departures, CNN Travel, AFAR and Forbes Travel Guide, and is a guidebook author of Lonely Planet’s Experiences: London (2022). Travis is also the creator…

Matt Kepnes runs the award-winning travel site nomadicmatt.com, which helps people travel the world on a budget. He’s the author of the NYT bestseller How to Travel the World on $50 a Day and the travel memoir Ten Years a Nomad. His writings and advice have been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian,…

Heather Greenwood Davis is a contributing editor/on-air storyteller for National Geographic, a feature writer/columnist for The Globe and Mail, the travel expert on CTV’s national talk program The Social and co-host of Get, Set, Go! on CHCH TV. She is the first and only Black woman to write travel columns for both national newspapers, and…

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…