Jayme Moye is the North American Travel Journalist Association’s 2018 Grand Prize awardee in Travel Journalism. She is the first woman to achieve that honor more than once, having also been the Grand Prize awardee in 2014. Her writing appears in National Geographic, Travel + Leisure, Outside, New York, and Marie Claire, among others. Her travel narratives have been anthologized in The…

Stephanie Rosenbloom is a travel writer for the New York Times. A reporter there for more than a decade, she’s had beats in the Business, Styles, and Real Estate sections. She’s a featured writer in The New York Times, 36 Hours: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada (Taschen, 2011) and in The New York Times…

Rowan Moore Gerety is a journalist based in Miami. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, the Miami Herald, Slate, and Virginia Quarterly Review, and he has produced radio stories for NPR and PRI. He studied anthropology at Columbia University and was a Fulbright fellow in Mozambique. His first book is Go Tell…

Amy Gigi Alexander is a writer, editor, publisher, and geocultural explorer with an emphasis on travel writing, landscapes imagined and real, memoir, poetry, and lyrical magical realism paired with psychogeography. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the British literary journal Panorama: the Journal of Intelligent Travel, the publisher of Panoramic Publishing, and has taught travel and landscape writing around…

Zora O’Neill is the author of All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World, winner of the SATW Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Book of 2016. She has been a travel writer since 2002 and has written dozens of guidebooks for Moon, Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. Her writing has appeared…

Mark Johanson is an American travel writer based in Santiago, Chile. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, GQ, Bloomberg Pursuits, The Guardian and the Chicago Tribune, among others. He is also a frequent Lonely Planet author and a regular contributor to Men’s Journal and the BBC. How did you get started traveling? My mom grew…

Dave Seminara is a journalist and former diplomat based in Bend, Oregon. He is the author of Bed, Breakfast & Drunken Threats: Dispatches from the Margins of Europe, which was a #1 bestseller in Liechtenstein. Dave writes a series for BBC Travel called Travel Pioneers, which won a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award in 2016.…

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, the novel Sight Hound, a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, and Contents May Have Shifted, all published by W.W. Norton. Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories,…

Andrew Solomon’s books have won over fifty awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Wellcome Prize. His most recent book, from 2016, is Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World, which was one of the New York Times‘ best books of the year. His previous books include…

Joshua Kucera is a freelance writer who has written a number of travelogues from the former Soviet Union and surrounding areas, including from Kazakhstan, the Russia-China border, Ukraine, and western China. Recently he published a series of dispatches from along the Europe-Asia border for Slate and Roads & Kingdoms. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa,…

Abbie Kozolchyk is the author of National Geographic’s The World’s Most Romantic Destinations. She’s spent most of her career in magazines, sometimes in the Glamour/Cosmo/Allure universe, sometimes in the National Geographic Traveler/Conde Nast Traveler/Travel + Leisure universe—and sometimes in both, such as the day she had to file copy on Reese Witherspoon’s bangs from a Tibetan…