Contributors
Ellis Avery (1972–2019) was an award-winning writer of novels, memoirs, haikus, and essays.
Marie Barbieri is an award-winning travel writer and photographer, and a member of the Australian Society of Travel Writers. She left her native United Kingdom for Australia twelve years ago.
Nikki Bayley is an English travel and booze writer who moved to Canada in 2012. Wrangler of Teddy, the world’s cutest dog, she’s currently based in the Okanagan.
Joshua Bird is an academic and international development professional, focussing on human rights and ethnic minorities in Asia. His first book is Economic Development in China’s Northwest: Entrepreneurship and Identity Along China’s Multi-ethnic Borderland (Routledge, 2017). Twitter: @DrJoshuaBird
Hilary Bown writes, edits, and translates articles on US and European politics, history, sustainability, travel, and culture from Berlin.
Born in Glasgow, Hongkonger Lee Cobaj is a travel writer specialising in new developments in Asia. She has contributed to the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, and National Geographic Traveller.
Sheena Dabholkar is a multimedia journalist and the director of LOVER, an India-centric online lifestyle publication and studio. Her favourite things include design, slow travel, and ranting on the internet.
Meera Dattani is the UK editor of Adventure.com. She has written for publications such as Rough Guides, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller, The Telegraph, Travel Weekly, and Bloomberg, and co-authored the 2017 Rough Guide to Cambodia.
Robyn Eckhardt is a food and travel journalist and the author of Istanbul and Beyond: Exploring the Diverse Cuisines of Turkey. After two decades in Asia, she now lives in the Piemonte region of Italy.
Caroline Eden is a writer and journalist, contributing to the travel, food, and arts pages of The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, and other publications. In 2018 she published Black Sea (Quadrille).
Espirro, based in Lisbon, is a young and versatile creator, tattoo artist, illustrator, and so much more.
Yolanda Evans is an American cocktail and travel writer. Her work has appeared in Thrillist, Wine Enthusiast, The Points Guy, The Cocktail Lovers, Travel & Leisure, Food52, and Jetsetter.
Elen P. Farkas is a single parent to a teenaged boy. They live with a smoky grey cat in Vienna. She has written for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, a national broadsheet in the Philippines, and some online magazines. She is an ardent tombstone tourist.
Karen Gardiner is a Scottish writer who has lived in seven countries on five continents but is happiest in the far north.
Tanya Ward Goodman is the author of the memoir Leaving Tinkertown. She has published essays and articles about art, nature, parenting, travel, and family history. She is working on a second memoir.
Megan Hatch is a photographer living in Portland, Oregon, slowly collecting the requisite tattoos. She’s been making photos when she was a kid, saving coins for her next disposable camera. meganhatcharts.com
Selena Hoy is a writer based in Tokyo. She can usually be found drinking coffee in Tokyo cafes and bathing in hot springs in rural Japan.
Ramón Iriarte is a journalist and filmmaker with a background in political science. Based between the United States and Colombia, his work mainly focusses on social and environmental conflicts in the Americas.
Alicia Kennedy is a writer from Long Island. She currently lives in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Gabriel Leigh is a writer and filmmaker who lived in Miami for two years and often finds himself idly seeking excuses to move back. He now lives in Stockholm, just 4,985 miles and a universe away.
Troy Litten is a San Francisco-based designer and photographer, most at home on the road, fuelled by an appreciation for and fascination with all forms of visual culture, communication, and expression.
Doug Mack is the author of The Not-Quite States of America (W.W. Norton, 2017), a travelogue about the U.S. territories.
Pam Mandel is the Seattle-based co-founder of the Statesider, a website about American culture and travel. She's written for Lonely Planet, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Afar, and was included in the 2018 Best Women’s Travel Writing anthology. Twitter: @nerdseyeview
Eleanor Margolis is a columnist for the i Newspaper, and a freelance journalist. She writes regularly for the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Telegraph, and others.
Staffan Martikainen splits his time between translation work in Brussels and running artists' residency projects in Senegal, Mauritania, and his native Finland. His interests include craft, design, and architecture.
Kieran Meeke writes because he’s a reader. If he finds a story no one has written yet, he does his best to write it. Recent credits include Rough Guides and the Irish Times. inherit-the-earth.com
Alisha Miranda is a freelance writer covering travel, food, and culture, whose story credits include eurocheapo.com, Note for Tourists guidebooks, and Time Out. You can follow her travel diaries at bit.ly/alishaintravel.
Rowena Mondiwa is a writer with a special interest in culture, the arts, communication, digital storytelling, and what makes us human. She lives in Vancouver and blogs at wordlandscapes.wordpress.com.
Martha Mukaiwa is a freelance arts, entertainment, and travel writer. In between her travels, she lives in Windhoek.
Mary Novakovich is an award-winning journalist and travel writer, as well as a committed Francophile. Her work is published regularly in British publications including the Guardian, the Independent, and the Telegraph.
Sheila Ngọc Phạm is a writer based in Sydney, Australia. Her work has been published by the New York Times, Roads & Kingdoms, and Lonely Planet, among many others. She can navigate restaurant menus in a dozen languages.
Zora O'Neill is the author of All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World. Her writing about refugees in Greece has been published in USA Today and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. She lives in Astoria, New York.
Candace Rose Rardon is a writer and illustrated based in Montevideo. Her work has appeared on Longreads, National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel site, the Calm meditation app and in Lonely Planet travel anthologies, among others.
Oklahoma-born Robert Reid has written frequently for National Geographic Traveler and Modern Adventure.
Leila Sajjadi is a London based British/Iranian art specialist, writer and translator. She has written extensively about Iranian and Middle Eastern art and has collaborated with institutions and publications around the world presenting art of the region and beyond.
Annie B. Shapero is a certified sommelier and founder of DiVino, a New York City-based wine education and communications company. She has written for Time Out, DK, and Insight Guides, among other publications. divinonyc.com
Katerina Shosheva was born in Chisinau. After a decade in management and floristry, in 2017 she started 226, her first personal photography project, which focusses on family and detachment.
Cláudio Silva is an Angolan entrepreneur working on a restaurant & hotel discovery platform in Luanda.
Half-Indian, half-English, entirely unhinged, Warren Singh-Bartlett spent the last year writing a travelogue about a walk through the Lebanese mountains length and a speculative fiction novel set in Reconquista-era Andalus.
Eileen Smith is originally from Brooklyn, and moved to Santiago in 2004. She writes essays and articles about travel, art, culture, language, and food, and is co-authoring a Chilean cookbook to be published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc. in 2020.
Jorge Pedro Uribe Llamas is the author of the books Amor por la Ciudad de México (Parallel 21, 2015) and Novísima grandeza mexicana (Parallel 21, 2017), and an associate member of the Seminario de Cultura Mexicana. His podcast can be heard here: http://apple.co/2E1h0CA.
Meher Varma uses her academic training in anthropology to write stories about clothes, food, travel, and people. She is often found walking the very unwalkable streets of South Delhi.
Photographer Saskia Wesseling has lived outside her home country – the Netherlands – for the last 12 years, in Zürich, Cairo, Guangzhou, and now Hong Kong, where she documents glamour in the unglamorous.
David Whitley contributes to newspapers and magazines on four continents, and has an unashamed love of ridiculously niche museums.