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…

Celeste Brash has contributed to around 75 titles for Lonely Planet, and her work has appeared in many other publications including BBC Travel, Parents, Travel & Leisure, and the Travelers’ Tales anthologies. She’s studied Buddhism in Thailand, danced in a French Polynesian dance troupe and ridden a bike naked with 10,000 other cyclists in her…

Ken Ilgunas is an author, journalist, and backcountry ranger. He has hitchhiked ten thousand miles across North America, paddled one thousand miles across Ontario in a birchbark canoe, and walked 1,700 miles across the Great Plains, following the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline. He’s written for the New York Times, Time, Backpacker, and…

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and The World and the co-editor, with Rebecca Solnit, of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and his essays and journalism have also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Believer, Artforum, and The Nation. He earned a PhD in…

Kia Abdullah is an author and travel writer based in London. She has published two novels and contributed to the New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC. She is an ambassador for Lonely Planet and the founding editor of the outdoor travel blog Atlas & Boots. Previously, Kia worked for two years at Penguin Random…

Kimberley Lovato’s lifestyle, food and travel articles have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Robb Report, Private Clubs, Virtuoso Life, Delta Sky, American Way, Every Day With Rachael Ray, BBC, travelandleisure.com, and many other publications. Her award-winning personal essays have appeared in several editions of The Best Women’s Travel Writing and her culinary travel book, Walnut…

Cindy Ross is an adventurer and long-distance backpacker and cyclist. She has completed the Triple Crown of American hiking: the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Continental Divide Trail. Cindy is the author of six books on adventuring in the outdoors, including Scraping Heaven: A Family’s Journey along the Continental Divide. Her latest…

Kate Harris is a writer with a knack for getting lost. Winner of the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, her nature and travel writing has been cited in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing anthologies, and has featured in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, and The Georgia Review. She lives off-grid in…

Born in Scotland and educated at Oxford University, George Black has been based in the U.S. since 1982. He is the author of seven nonfiction books, including On the Ganges: Encounters with Saints and Sinners on India’s Mythic River, which debuts this month. His long-form journalism has appeared in venues such as the New Yorker,…