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…

Rachel Louise Snyder is the author of Fugitive Denim: A Moving Story of People and Pants in the Borderless World of Global Trade, the novel What We’ve Lost is Nothing, and No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us. Over the last decade, Snyder has been an outspoken journalist on issues of domestic violence…

Tim Hannigan is a travel and history writer from Cornwall in the far west of the UK. His first book, Murder in the Hindu Kush (2011), about the ill-fated Victorian explorer George Hayward, was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. His second book, Raffles and the British Invasion of Java (2012), won…

Mark Adams is the author of bestselling books Turn Right at Machu Picchu, which Men’s Journal selected as one of the “Fifty Greatest Adventure Books of All Time,” Tip of the Iceberg and Meet Me in Atlantis. His acclaimed history Mr. America was named one of the year’s best books by the Washington Post. His work appears in many national publications, including GQ, Rolling Stone, Outside and the New…