Rosie Bell is a location-independent freelance writer, editor, and author of Escape to Self. She writes for publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including Condé Nast Traveler, BBC Worklife, Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Traveller, Atlas Obscura, Lonely Planet, Hemispheres, and Fodor’s Travel. She has appeared as a travel expert on the likes of ABC News, NBC News,…
James Michael Dorsey is an award-winning author, explorer, and lecturer who has spent three decades researching remote tribal cultures in fifty-six countries. His separate passion is working as a cetacean naturalist on whale boats in California and Mexico, a parallel career he has pursued for three decades. These combined journeys have resulted in over 800…
Shahnaz Habib is the author of Airplane Mode, a cultural history of travel, and the translator of the Malayalam novel Jasmine Days, which won the JCB Prize 2018. How did you get started traveling? When I was a kid, my family would often take long-distance train journeys around India. We lived in the south Indian…
Megan Harlan is an American travel writer, essayist, and fiction writer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brittany, France. She is the author most recently of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press), winner of both the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and the Independent Book Publishers Gold…
Oliver Smith is an award winning travel journalist based in London. For 10 years he traveled the world working for Lonely Planet Magazine. Today his work can be found in various outlets – FT Weekend, The Times and National Geographic Traveller – he also writes a regular walking column for Waitrose Weekend. Oliver has been named Travel Writer of the Year on…
Zoey Goto is a journalist and author covering culture and travel, all things Americana, vintage style, musical icons and mid-century pop culture. She is the US travel specialist for The Times and a regular contributor to National Geographic Traveller, plus writes for titles including BBC Travel, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Wallpaper, Lonely Planet, Vogue, Architectural Digest,…
Jonathan (Jon) DeHart is a Tokyo-based writer focused on travel, culture and society in Asia. He is the author of two guidebooks for Moon Travel Guides (Moon Japan and Moon Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima) and a journalist with more than 500 published articles. His work has been selected for various “best of” lists by the…
Aaron Millar is an award-winning travel writer, broadcaster and author. He contributes regularly to The Times of London, National Geographic Traveller (UK), Wanderlust, and many other international publications. He was the 2014 and 2017 British Guild of Travel Writers Travel Writer of the Year, and the 2019 & 2020 US IPW Travel Writer of the…
Bart Schaneman is an editor at The Daily by Outdoor Retailer, focused on business news for the outdoors industry. He also covers the Colorado literary scene for the Boulder Weekly. Prior to that he was on the cannabis beat for MJBizDaily, the editor in chief of the Scottsbluff Star-Herald as well as national editor of…
Mike Nixon is an author, world traveler, and entrepreneur who has been traversing the globe for nearly two decades. Life Travel And The People In Between is his debut memoir, a story that explores his travels as an exchange student, Peace Corps Volunteer, NGO worker, U.S. Navy sailor, and adventurer who loves off-the-grid travel. Born…
Claire Polders is a Dutch author of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest of five books is A Whale in Paris (Atheneum, Simon & Schuster), a historical novel for younger readers. Her short stories and essays have been widely published in literary journals, including TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, and Electric Literature. She’s currently finishing a…
