Author of fifty-plus travel guides and many articles, Carolyn McCarthy seeks out original stories, explores environmental issues, and works to create meaningful connections with local cultures. Specialized in remote travel, she has explored the Amazon Basin via dugout canoe and solo hiked Patagonia to write Lonely Planet’s Trekking in the Patagonian Andes. Before that, she…
Camille T. Dungy was named a Guggenheim fellow in 2019. She is the author the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado…
Rory Nugent is a writer and an explorer. His work examines the deep shadows cast by traditions gone missing, or about to go missing. His findings have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, and in his three books: Down at the Docks; Drums Along the Congo: On the Trail of Mokele-Mbembe, the Last Living Dinosaur;…
Lebawit Lily Girma is an award-winning writer and photographer who ditched her legal career for the road in 2008. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Cote d’Ivoire, she’s a serial expat who studied on three continents and speaks four languages. Lily’s work, focusing on all things culture and sustainable travel in the Caribbean, has been…
Shafik Meghji is an award-winning travel writer and journalist based in South London. A Latin America and Asia specialist, he has co-authored more than 35 guidebooks, including Rough Guides to Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, India, Laos, and Mexico. He writes for print and digital publications around the world, including BBC Travel, the Guardian and Time…
Oneika Raymond is a Travel Channel host and on-air travel expert for NBC New York and CTV Canada. A bona fide travel junkie, her adventures have taken her to over 110 countries on 6 continents. As the author of the award-winning travel blog “Oneika the Traveller”, Oneika is dedicated to inspiring people of color to see…
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, historian and traveler. Named by Newsweek as “one of the twelve finest travel writers of the past hundred years,” Tim, according to the New York Times, “seems incapable of writing a dull sentence, and in him the scholar, the linguist and the storyteller swap hats with marvelous speed.” Born in…
Leon Logothetis is a global adventurer, motivational speaker and philanthropist. He used to be a broker in the city of London, where he felt uninspired and chronically depressed. He gave it all up for a life on the road. This radical life change was inspired by the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. Leon has visited more…
Matthew Teller is a writer, journalist and documentary-maker. He writes for the BBC and other global media, produces and presents for BBC Radio, and is a long-standing travel author for Rough Guides. He is currently writing a book about Jerusalem, to be published in 2020 by New Internationalist. He tweets at @matthewteller and maintains a blog…
Faith Adiele is a travel memoirist and founder of the nation’s only writing workshop for travelers of color. Meeting Faith, her account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist Nun, won the PEN Open Book Award. She is a Senior Editor for Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology.…
Adam Valen Levinson is the author of The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah (W.W. Norton, 2017), dubbed “Eat, Pray, Laugh” by The New York Times. He’s an affiliate of the Middle East Institute, and a Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, where he studies senses of humor as a key to cross…
