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…

Marco Ferrarese writes about travel, culture, and extreme music in Asia for a variety of international publications, including Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, CNN Travel, BBC Travel, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveler (UK), the South China Morning Post, Roads and Kingdoms, and Time Out. Marco’s first pulp novel Nazi Goreng, published in 2013 by Monsoon Books, explores…

Erick Prince is a writer, photographer, and world traveler. After serving over ten years in the United States Air Force, he is on a quest to become the first African American to visit every country in the world. His blogs and shares photos and videos of his travels at Minority Nomad. How did you get…

Edmund Vallance is a London-born writer and musician. His travel stories and photographs have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The London Evening Standard, and The Independent. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons. How did you get started traveling? I went to Bristol University…