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About Amandah Blackwell 198 Articles

Amandah Blackwell is a creative, freelance and ghost writer for industries that include but are not limited to the arts & entertainment, travel, publishing, real estate, pets, personal and professional development, and much more.

Amandah's personal writing projects include screenplays, teleplays, YA, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry. 

You can find more of her writing at www.MisticCafe.com, savvywritingcareers.wordpress.com, and www.savvy-writer.com.

You can follow Amandah on Twitter at:  http://twitter.com/savvy_writer

About Trisha Miller 116 Articles
Trisha Miller Editor-in-Chief, TravelWritersExchange.com - Trisha joined the Travel Industry in 1996 with a background in telecommunications and helped to build (and later sell) one of the industry's top inbound call centers specializing in air travel. Her career in Travel Writing began with creating destination-specific content for a corporate travel intranet, and continued as she contributed content to a large number of travel-related companies that were establishing an online presence throughout the late '90's and early '00's. Currently she is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a former Board Member of the International Food, Wine, and Travel Writers Association (2009-2015).  Still a frequent world traveler, and occasional guest-blogger on a number of other Travel Blogs, Trisha writes about travel and technology, sometimes both at the same time. You can follow Trisha on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/TravelWriting
About Roy Stevenson 58 Articles
Freelance travel writer Roy Stevenson has had more than 1,000 articles published in 200+ regional, national, and international magazines, newspapers, trade journals, custom publications, specialty magazines, in-flights, on-boards, and online travel magazines. He's considered one of the most prolific travel writers in the U.S.A. His free weekly newsletter for aspiring travel writers is considered one of the most informative e-zines in the travel writing business. (Subscribe here: http://www.pitchtravelwrite.com/pitchtravelwrite-ezine.html) Roy has published seven eBooks on selling and marketing freelance travel articles. (http://www.pitchtravelwrite.com/digital-downloads.html) You can read Roy's full bio and see some samples of his work at his writer's website, www.Roy-Stevenson.com
About Susan Farewell 27 Articles

Susan Farewell is the editor-in-chief of FarewellTravels.com, a travel information and planning site drawing on the experiences and insights of passionate travelers all over the world. It features animations, videos, photography, artwork and of course, words, to showcase travel destinations, experiences and products.

A former travel editor and staff writer at The Condé Nast Publications in New York City, Susan is a widely known digital, print and broadcast travel journalist. Her work has appeared in numerous publications (and sibling websites) including  Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, Gourmet, Cooking Light, Travel and Leisure, Outside, Metropolitan Home, McCall’s, Child and Bride’s. She also writes for newspapers such as The New York Times and The New York Post, newsletters (BottomLine Personal) and numerous in-flight and regional magazines as well as various websites.

In addition to writing, Farewell has also developed countless products both in digital and traditional media from travel guides to online magazines.

She is the  author of several books including "How To Make A Living As A Travel Writer", "Hidden New England" and "Quick Escapes from New York City" (the latter two have had multiple editions). She has also co-authored many books.

Susan is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, the New York Travel Writers, the North American Snowsports Journalists and the Eastern Ski Writers Association.

About Wendy VanHatten 11 Articles

Wendy VanHatten left the corporate world to become a professional freelance travel writer and author. In addition she is an editor, travel business owner, author of a variety of published books, and photographer.

Currently, Wendy is writing several books on such topics as women and success, positive travel experiences, and recipes combined with destinations.  She continues to write several times a week on her blog Her website, http://wendyvanhatten.com/, features sample articles, photos, services and links, and her newest ebook can be found at www.mylifethesequel.com.

Twitter: http://twitter.com/WendyVH
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wendyvanhatten
LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wendy-vanhatten/3/25b/297

About JoAnna Haugen 7 Articles

JoAnna Haugen is a creativity connoisseur, idea inventor and freelance writer with a professional background in copywriting. A former Peace Corps volunteer and avid world traveler, she is the community news editor for WorldView, the publication for the National Peace Corps Association, and managing editor for Journey Beyond Travel, an online guide about travel in Morocco. JoAnna’s writing has appeared in more than 40 print and online publications including Caribbean Travel & Life, American Way, WestJet’s up!, Vegas Magazine, Pathfinders Travel, TravelSmart, Diamond Resorts International Magazine and Las Vegas Review-Journal. She also writes the popular travel blog, Kaleidoscopic Wandering.

When she’s not on the road or writing about travel, JoAnna also works as a ghost writer, blogger, copywriter and editor for clients and projects spanning a variety of genres. Learn more about her professional work and follow her on Twitter for updates on her latest travels.

About Maralyn Hill 5 Articles

Maralyn Hill is currently serving as President of the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association, and as Co-Chairman of the Conference and Press Trips Committee for the IFWTWA.

She is also CEO of NoraLyn Ltd. and was Host / Producer of over 90 Time Warner Cable food shows; Editor and Columnist, Where & What in the World; Columnist, Big Blend Magazine; Co-author "Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel;" contributor, Meetings Mexico & Latin America; Contributor, Global Writes; Contributor, SOGONOW.com; Co-author, "Cooking Secrets the Why and How;" Co-author, "Success, Your Path to a Successful Book,".

Maralyn also writes with her husband Norman Hill.

Maralyn's Websites:
www.NoraLyn.com
www.BooksByHills.com
http://whereandwhatintheWorld.com
http://successwithwriting.com

You can follow Maralyn on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/MaralynHill

About Prime Sarmiento 5 Articles

Prime Sarmiento is a southeast Asia-based journalist, travel blogger and expert on solo female travel. Her blog, The GypsyGals, offers inspiring stories and practical advice to women who want to craft their own journeys.

You can Follow Prime on Twitter, or connect with her on Facebook and Linkedin.

About Jill Pertler 4 Articles

Jill Pertler is a self-syndicated columnist and author of The Do-It-Yourselfer’s Guide to Self Syndication, which gives a practical, hands-on, step-by-step approach to self-syndication and outlines numerous ways that syndication can benefit freelance writers. Available online (paperback and ebook) at booklocker.com or through Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com.

In addition, Jill’s Slices of Life columns have been touching people’s hearts and tickling their funny bones since 2002. They are currently published in over 75 newspapers in the upper Midwest. You can read them on Facebook: Slices of Life

For more in-depth writing advice, visit Jill’s website: Marketing by Design and click on the Helpful how-to information at the upper right corner of the home page.

Follow Jill on Twitter: jillpertler

About Janice Waugh 4 Articles

As publisher of Solo Traveler, Janice Waugh offers solo travel stories, tips, safety advice and destination ideas.

A professional writer and entrepreneur, she is also co-founder of the Global Bloggers Network, an interactive, online service for travel bloggers.

You can follow Janice on Twitter: http://twitter.com/solotraveler
Subscribe on StumbleUpon:http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/solotravelerblog

About Lisa Gerber 4 Articles

In 2001 Lisa Gerber escaped the city life and found the dream life she had envisioned from her Seattle office cubicle. She now lives on a mountain outside of Sandpoint, Idaho with her husband and two dogs, where she telemark skis, mountain bikes and practices yoga (all so she can indulge in her passion of fine food and wines), and where she has been telling the story of organizations small to large since 2004. 

Her firm, Big Leap Creative, is a mountain lifestyle public relations and strategic communications firm catering to the outdoor, hospitality, recreational real estate, food and wine industries.

You can read more of Lisa's writing on her blog, The 26-Hour Day where she would blog more frequently if the day did indeed have 26 hours, and you can also follow Lisa on Twitter.

About DaveAndDeb 3 Articles

Canada’s Adventure Couple, Dave Bouskill and Debra Corbeil have been in high gear since meeting in 1991. Married for 11 of their 18 years together, they have climbed, paddled, hiked and biked their way through 5 continents and over 30 countries.  Their adventures have taken them to the far corners of the earth where they have embraced new cultures and ways of life, while learning about the traditions of the indigenous people that they meet along the way.

They explore the world with a broad view by seeing it from two different perspectives, allowing them to experience different activities that they would otherwise avoid if traveling alone, and have come to respect the value of compromise.  They believe that they've only scratched the surface of what this world has to offer and look forward to more great journeys. Their goal is to teach the world about other ways of life and raise awareness of social issues that different communities face each day.

In November 2009 they will be leaving on yet another epic travel starting in India and working their way through Central Asia and the Middle East.

You can follow their travels around the world at http://www.theplanetd.com

Their YouTube channel is http://www.youtube.com/wegobyebye

You can follow them on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/theplanetd

About Nancy D. Brown 3 Articles

Nancy Brown is a lover of all things travel-related.  She has combined her passion for travel with her professional writing career. 

Nancy writes a travel column, “What a Trip” for the Contra Costa Times Lamorinda Sun, a publication of Media News Group.  She is the Lodging Editor for Uptake.com. She writes an on-line travel column for Diablo magazine and the "Traveler Making a Difference" column for Escapes magazine. 

Horse lovers will find her on the Writing Horseback blog. She is a BootsnAll Insider for California and has contributed to InsideBayArea, Uptake.com and Write to Travel blogs.  She is a member of Bay Area Travel Writers (BATW), BlogHer, Matador and Travelwriters.com.  She also owns a public relations consulting business.

About Matthew Barker 3 Articles

Matthew Barker is a Peru-based wannabe writer who combined his love of travel and writing with his career in marketing to create the Travel Content Network, an online marketplace for professional travel writers and online publishers who recognise the value of high quality writing.

 

You can follow Matthew on Twitter, or connect with him on Facebook and LinkedIn.

About Bryan Cassidy 3 Articles

Bryan Cassidy is an avid adventure traveler who enjoys hiking, mountain biking and heli-skiing.  His travels have taken him to summits of snowy peaks within the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia, Canada, to the ancient remnants of Pompeii near the foot of Mount Vesuvius.

He's always felt that the more you travel, the more you realize how little you’ve seen.

Bryan is also the co-founder of Endless Bucket List, and an occasional guest blogger on several travel related websites.

You can connect with Bryan on Facebook or visit his YouTube Channel.

About Janna Graber 3 Articles

Janna Graber has written for almost 50 publications.  She is the executive editor at Go World Travel Magazine

She also serves as director/instructor at Travel Writing On Location, which offers travel writing workshops in top destinations around the world. Travel Writing On Location provides not only classroom learning, but on-the-job experience. Writers tour each destination with local experts— visiting attractions, interviewing experts, and experiencing the culture— while learning the skills needed to be a travel writer.

You can connect with Travel Writing On Location on Facebook, or follow them on Twitter.

 

About Sarah Fazendin 3 Articles

Spending nearly her entire career working in travel, marketing destinations, hotels and tour companies across Africa and other exotic destinations, Sarah knows what it takes to craft perfect trips of a lifetime to adventurous and far-flung places. But recently, when it came to planning her own relaxing beach getaway closer to home, a seemingly simple task, she was lost.

Sarah Fazendin founded A Week at the Beach to provide a comprehensive, curated travel resource laser-focused on one very specific trip: a simple, rejuvenating weeklong beach vacation. Sarah loves blogging about (and traveling to!) Mexico and the Caribbean.

You can follow Sarah on Twitter at @aweekatthebeach

About Gary Arndt 2 Articles

Gary Arndt is the man behind one of the world's most popular, independent travel blogs, Everything-Everywhere.com.

He has been traveling non-stop since March, 2007 and has visited over 60 countries and territories.

In addition to posting regularly to his travel blog, Gary co-hosts the popular weekly podcast "This Week in Travel", where he offers his opinions on what's going on in the travel industry, travel technology, and the world of travel blogging.

You can Follow Gary on Twitter at:  http://twitter.com/EverywhereTrip
Become a Fan of Gary's on Facebook at:  http://www.facebook.com/EverythingEverywhere

About Dianne Sharma Winter 2 Articles

Dianne Sharma Winter has been living On The Road for sixteen years and describes herself as a literary traveler. One line in a book will send her somewhere; she has lived in the jungles of India with her guru ji, rescued herself the nick of time from the tsunami of 2004 and hunting tigers in the Sunderbans.

A freelance writer, Dianne is currently living in India and working on three books.  Her short stories have been published in her native country of New Zealand.

Follow Dianne on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/Dibundy

About Cheryl Probst 2 Articles

Cheryl Probst is an award-winning photojournalist who spent more than 25 years working for newspapers in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, New York and China.

She retired from her job at a local law firm last year to concentrate on freelance writing, and now writes mainly about travel in China and the Pacific Northwest, as well as about motorcycles (she’s married to a motorcycle fanatic).

She has also created her own guidebook line, Cheryl’s Guides, to cover all the travel areas she wants to write about. Books about local wineries and motorcycle museums are on the drawing board.

Cheryl and her husband, Jon Teal, live in Washington State.

Cheryl’s Guides on GuideGecko:
http://www.guidegecko.com/cheryls-guides-travel-guides/u,2175

Cheryl’s China website: http://www.cherylschina.webs.com

About Nick O'Connell 2 Articles
Nicholas O’Connell, M.F.A, Ph.D., is the author of "The Storms of Denali" (University of Alaska Press, 2012), "On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature" (University of Washington Press, 2003), "At the Field’s End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers" (University of Washington Press Press, 1998), "Contemporary Ecofiction" (Charles Scribner’s, 1996) and "Beyond Risk: Conversations with Climbers" (Mountaineers, 1993). He has contributed to Newsweek, Gourmet, Saveur, Outside, GO, National Geographic Adventure, Condé Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sierra, The Wine Spectator, Commonweal, Image and many other places. He is the publisher/editor of The Writer’s Workshop Review and the founder of the online and Seattle-based writing program, https://www.thewritersworkshop.net You can connect with Nick on Social Media: Facebook: The Writer’s Workshop. Twitter: @nickboconnell Instagram: the.writers.workshop Website URLs: https://www.thewritersworkshop.net https://www.thewritersworkshop.net/classes/travel-writing-classes/
About Tiffany Matthews 2 Articles

Based in San Diego California, Tiffany Matthews has been a professional writer for over 5 years, including 2 years of freelance work. She believes that anyone can succeed in the freelance world with hard work, talent and perseverance.

Tiffany also blogs about travel, fashion, and anything under the sun at wordbaristas.com, a group blog that she shares with her good friends. In her free time, she likes to travel, read books, and watch movies. You can find her on Twitter as @TiffyCat87.

About Chris Christensen 2 Articles

In addition to being a talented photographer, Chris Christensen is the host of "The Amateur Traveler", an online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations, stories, and tips. It includes both a weekly audio podcast and a twice monthly video podcast.  

Chris also co-hosts the popular podcast "This Week in Travel" (along with Jen Leo and Gary Arndt). Both podcasts can be subscribed to via iTunes.

He's recently left the corporate life of an Executive VP for a Silicon Valley company to focus on his media empire.  

You can find out more about Chris at The Amateur Traveler, become a Fan of his Travel Show on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter.

About Mariellen Ward 2 Articles

Mariellen Ward is a Toronto-based freelance travel writer, traveler and blogger. Traveling in India – and writing about it – is her passion. Over the course of three trips, totaling 11 months, she has been to 12 states, five ashrams and one Ayurvedic resort.

Mariellen will be heading back to India this winter for three months (Feb-May 2010) and invites you to follow her adventures by subscribing to her blog BreatheDreamGo.com.

You can follow Mariellen on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BreatheDreamGo

About Billie Frank 2 Articles

Billie Frank is a freelance writer covering Santa Fe and beyond. Her work has appeared in Colorado and New Mexico print publications and on the web.

She's also a blogger (http://www.santafetravelers.com) and co-owner of The Santa Fe Traveler, a travel-concierge and trip-planning service. (http://thesantafetraveler.com)

You can Follow Billie on Twitter or connect with her on Facebook.

About Shannon O'Donnell 2 Articles

Shannon O'Donnell recently finished a yearlong backpacking trip around the world that took her from diving in Australia on the Great Barrier Reef to teaching English to monks in Nepal.

Her travel blog, A Little Adrift, shares stories, pictures and videos of the places she saw and the people she met along the way. 

Although her former life as an actress in LA is calling to her, she plans to stay on the road for several more years with breaks back to her home state of Florida to visit family.

Catch up with Shannon at her Blog: http://alittleadrift.com
Follow Shannon on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShannonRTW

About Kim Palacios 2 Articles

Kim Palacios is a Bay Area transplant whose epicurean tendencies are matched only by her wanderlust.  She is quadrilingual and holds an M.B.A. in Finance.  While not mourning the death of free markets, she enjoys television and film.

You can read more of Kim's writing at Examiner.com:

 http://www.examiner.com/x-6291-SF-Luxury-Travel-Examiner

And on her Personal Site: 

http://kimpalacios.webs.com/travelwritingsamples.htm

You can Follow Kim on Twitter or Friend her on Facebook

About TravelTart 2 Articles

The Travel Tart (sometimes known as Anthony Bianco) is a self-proclaimed travel addict who will find any feeble excuse to go traveling. Anthony discovered he really enjoyed traveling the world when he was sent to a former war zone for work - Kosovo - as his first venture outside of Australia and New Zealand.  This created a habit of visiting places that most package tourists avoid like the plague.  He has since traveled to almost 40 countries over six continents - nowhere near enough!

While traveling, he likes risking his life by utilizing barely road-worthy forms of transport such as African mini-buses, suicidal Cairo cabs, and flatulent camels.  

His foray into the travel writing world happened by accident - his dodgy friends thought it was a good idea to convert his humorous travel emails into something more substantial - like articles and books.

Anthony likes to write about the funny, offbeat, and downright strange aspects of world travel today, which can be seen on his website at http://www.thetraveltart.com.  He also guest blogs for other sites if people are silly enough to take up his offer. 

About Maria Staal 2 Articles

Author, geek and world-explorer, Maria Staal was born in the Netherlands where she studied construction engineering and became a specialist in architectural history.  Her love of travel led her to embark on not one, but two ocean crossings on container ships, which in turn led to an impromptu job working for a shipping company writing guidebooks for passengers.  Her latest book, 'Times Zones, Conainers and Three Square Meals a Day' is a narrative travelogue and an account of the time she spent working on the ships.

Maria also blogs about her experiences as a writer and world traveler at http://www.mariastaal.com/ and about her quest to learn more about a saintly ancestor at a new site set to launch very soon.

You can purchase her first two books at http://www.ftkpublishing.co.uk/, and follow Maria on twitter at http://twitter.com/mariastaal

About James Hills 2 Articles

James Hills is the creator of ManTripping.com, a destination for guys looking for awesome mancation and guys weekend travel ideas. He started Man Tripping while working with two other niche travel websites and discovered that while there was tons of stuff for "moms" and "women" there was nothing out there for men. So he started one!

In addition to being an avid writer, a lover of trying new things, and helping people find new ways of doing business, James runs a social media and PR agency in Chicago, mhn PR & Internet Marketing.

Follow Man Tripping on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mantripping
Fan Man Tripping on Facebook: http://facebook.com/mantripping

Friend James on Facebook: http://facebook.com/jameshills

About Jen Westmoreland Bouchard 1 Article

Jen Westmoreland Bouchard is the owner of a freelance writing, editing and translation company, Lucidité Writing, LLC.

When she’s not galavanting around the world collecting literary and journalistic fodder, Jen writes daily from her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA).  She blogs at www.luciditewriting.wordpress.com.

You can Follow Jen on Twitter, or connect with her on Facebook.

About Ben Holbrook 1 Article

Ben Holbrook writes for a number of travel sites, including HotelClub and his own travel blog. When he’s not at his computer you’ll find him riding his motorcycle or eating his way around the world – Tapas and vino, anyone?

Follow Ben on Twitter: @Ben_Holbrook

About Cindy Ladage 1 Article
Cindy Ladage is a farmer’s wife and an award winning columnist for Farm World, she recently won the American Women in Communications Clarion award for her column “Wrenching Tales”. Cindy writes for antique tractor and toy magazines and travel stories for several publications. Cindy’s travel blog is http://travelingadventuresofafarmgirl.com. You can also join her on twitter at Cindy Ladage @cindyladage and Facebook at Traveling Adventures of a Farm Girl.
About Martina Vyskocova 1 Article

Martina Vyskocova is author of Girl's Trip Tips and small business owner based in Bratislava, Slovakia, but feeling like at home just about anywhere. She loves to explore the world either by traveling or reading lots of books. 

As a solo female traveler, she would like to encourage more girls around the world to travel. Her bucket list is endless, but her current goal is to explore Asia, learn to dive and get her book published.

You can follow Martina on Twitter, connect with her on LinkedIn, or find her on Pinterest.

About Jess Signet 1 Article

Jess Signet inherited her love of travel from her parents, and began traveling at a very young age. She's spent the last 3 1/2 years (and counting) exploring every corner of this incredible globe and doesn’t plan on slowing down any time soon. Her passion for exploration imbues her travel writing, and while not yet a full-time digital nomad, that is her ultimate goal.

You can follow her travels on Twitter: @JessTripelio

About Brendan van Son 1 Article

Brendan van Son is a travel writer and photographer from Rocky Mountain House, Canada. 

In addition to being published in a number of different travel related magazines, he also runs one of the more popular travel blogs on the internet “Brendan’s Adventures: The World is my Jungle Gym”.  Brendan lives by his own personal words of wisdom, "...in the world I live in, the world of travel, I try to find the moments that make me feel insignificant in a greater world, and I hope my blog gets that message across.” 

You can follow Brendan on Twitter, or find him on Facebook, or follow him on Stumbleupon.

About Susanna Quinn 1 Article

Susanna Quinn is a former Guardian journalist who now writes novels about the sex industry in Asia. She lives in Brighton with her partner, daughter and many flocks of seagulls.

You can follow Susanna on Twitter

About Sharon Mendelaoui 1 Article

Sharon Mendelaoui is a travel writer, passionate photographer and creative designer. She is the creator and publisher of www.dreamtravelmagazine.com, an online travel magazine filled with dream trips, hotel and product reviews, travel tips and inspiration to travel.

In 2013, Sharon attended TBEX a travel blogging conference that literally changed her life. The short version of the story: she was on a FAM trip, got stuck on a tree platform and had to be rescued from the tree, an experience that pushed her to live her life differently! She lost 75 pounds with a healthy eating lifestyle, dedicated herself to travel writing and started living the life of her dreams!

Now through her adventures at Dream Travel Magazine, Sharon hopes to inspire a community of travel dreamers to find the inspiration to live their own lives to the fullest and make their own travel dreams a reality!

You can connect with Sharon in many ways:
Web: www.dreamtravelmagazine.com
Twitter: @dreamtravelmag
Facebook: facebook.com/dreamtravelmagazine
Pinterest: pinterest.com/dreamtravelmag
Instagram: instagram.com/dreamtravelmag
Google+: plus.google.com/+Dreamtravelmagazine

About Shelley Seale 1 Article

Shelley Seale is a freelance journalistic writer based in Austin Texas, with 10 years of experience in professional writing.  She's been published in National Geographic, Globe Pequot Press, CNN, The Seattle Times, Austin Business Journal, Hotelier International and Andrew Harper Traveler, among others.

Shelley's also the author or a contributing author of six books, including the popular "How To Travel For Free".

You can learn more about Shelley at her website, www.ShelleySeale.com.  You can follow Shelley on Twitter, or connect with her on Facebook or LinkedIn.  You can also find out more about her most recent book at http://travelforfreebook.wordpress.com/

About Teresa Roberts 1 Article

Teresa Roberts likes living on the edge of who she is while anticipating who she is becoming. She has reinvented herself more than once in life.  From teacher/principal to world traveler and international house sitter to certified hypnotist, she simply loves being on a learning curve. 

Her first published book, Finding the Gypsy in Me, was written to appease the multitude of people who wanted to hear more about her adventures abroad. She hopes it is at once inspiring and practical. Teresa constantly seeks creative routes to freedom. She could be the poster girl for finding adventure at any age and on any income. 

Visit http://www.findingthegypsyinme.com to find out more about how Teresa travels the world as an international house sitter and how you can, too!

About Anastasia Feoktistova 1 Article

Anastasia Feoktistova is a Managing Editor at Italia magazine (http://italia-magazine.ru/), a Russian-language publication about Italy. She also writes for a number of web-sites and plans to open her own travel blog.

Born in Saratov, Russia, she studied translation at Lomonosov Moscow State University and publishing at Oxford Brookes University.

Instagram http://instagram.com/pumponius
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pumpon

About Michele McIntyre 1 Article

Michele McIntyre is a freelance travel writer with a passion and enthusiasm for writing about spas.  She is a National Spa Examiner for Examiner.com, and her articles and spa reviews are also featured on InnerRewards.com, eHow.com, ezinearticles.com, tripology.com, tripatlas.com and ruba.com. 

Michele blogs about topics related to the spa industry at http://everythingspa.wordpress.com/

When Michele is not traveling or visiting spas, reviewing spas, writing about spas and thinking about spas, she enjoys camping, hiking, reading (yes, often about spas), boating, walking, skiing, wine and spending time with friends and family. Michele lives near Syracuse, NY with her husband and son.

You can follow Michele on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cnyspagirl
You can find Michele on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1123403038&ref=name

About Randall Davidson 1 Article

Randall Davidson is a co-founder of ProofreadingServices.Us, a proofreading service that offers essay proofreading. Randall enjoys discussing proofreading tips and best practices with writers and other individuals.

About Lauren Yap 1 Article

Lauren Yap is a recent San Diego State Graduate and a Las Vegas travel website editor and webmaster for EarlyVegas.com. She specializes in finding travelers the best Las Vegas deals and works to stay up to date on everything Vegas.

Her writing has been featured in several publications across the web including CBS MoneyWatch, Star Tribune and The Boston Globe. Lauren has a passion for journalism and social media and one day hopes to make a difference with her words.

She also really likes Twitter:@laurenyap

About Jessica Spiegel 1 Article

Jessica Spiegel is a Portland-based travel writer for BootsnAll, for whom she writes the WhyGo Italy travel guide.

She'll happily pass on advice to just about anyone about things like train travel in Italy or where to stay in the Cinque Terre, but if you really want to get her rambling bring up either Venice or Naples.

She can be found on Twitter at @italylogue and on WhyGo Italy's Facebook page.

About Mark Labrow 1 Article

Mark Labrow is the founder and director of World Retreats, a website dedicated to helping people find inspiring holidays worldwide.  World Retreats hand picks yoga holidays, painting holidays and activity holidays from across the globe, helping holidaymakers to indulge their passions and explore their creative selves.

Mark is also a freelance creative consultant and writer and has worked extensively in the U.K. with schools, theatre companies, public sector and not for profit organisations.

He runs his own training courses and is a published author, having recently released ‘Creative Activities For The Secondary Classroom’ published by Pearson and available at Amazon.

To find a truly inspiring holiday for 2010 visit http://www.worldretreats.co.uk

Or make contact and receive updates through:
http://twitter.com/WorldRetreats
http://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Retreats/86601974445

About Meghan Ivarsson 1 Article

Meghan Ivarsson is a freelance writer and leads Scholar Advisor, an education portal for students, where she regularly contributes articles on education, careers and writing.

You can follow Meghan on Twitter: @MeghanIvarsson

About Tim Leffel 1 Article

Tim Leffel is a veteran freelancer who has contributed to 50+ publications and editor of the award-winning online magazine Perceptive Travel, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday.

He is the author of five books, including Travel Writing 2.0, and teaches others how to find true financial success in the field at Travel Writing Overdrive.

You can find Tim on most social media as Tim Leffel, on Instagram as globetrots.

About Jennifer Neves 1 Article

Jennifer Neves is the owner of Mad Dash Publishing and author of Backpack Like You Mean It - A crackpot tale of travel through South East Asia.  She lives in Olympia, Washington with her partner, and four pygmy goats.

You can follow Jenny at her Mad Dash Publishing Blog, Like her Mad Dash Publishing Facebook Page, or visit her website at http://www.maddashpublishing.com/

About Donald Nicolson 1 Article

Donald Nicolson is from Scotland and worked in academic research from 2001 until the end of 2014. He is a published author on over 30 research articles, some in prestigious journals like BMJ and Cochrane Library; and attended and presented at international research conferences, including Barcelona, Basel, Baltimore, Oxford, and Queenstown.

He's been to 12 countries on 4 continents; and has unashamedly fallen in love with Utrecht in The Netherlands, an article on which he published. When he is not doing freelance writing, he is developing a career as a travel writer; looking for an agent and a publishing deal for a travel book he is writing; and aiming to set up his own travel-related business venture.

Donald cannot remember who said "potential is a French word for you haven't done anything yet", but agrees with it in principle.

You can find Donald:
on Twitter at: @the_mopster
on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/donald-j-nicolson/9a/a6a/62

About Michael Falk 1 Article

 

Michael Falk is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief for Gear Up and Play, a community driven Travel Blog.  Gear Up and Play's simple shared platform offers travelers and outdoor adventure seekers the opportunity to share their experiences in a shared revenue setting. The community provides a social networking atmosphere where travelers can interact and follow other members in a fashion similar to twitter.  Each member has a unique profile where they can share information about themselves, submit articles, travelogues, photos, and even bookmark links to interesting yet relevant content around the web with digg style member voting.

In addition to indulging his love of travel and adventure Michael enjoys cooking, playing guitar, bike riding, camping, backpacking, kayaking and incessantly checking his website analytics.  Michael has worked on a number of other travel related projects including Best Travel Guitars and is continually working to foster the dream of one day being a travel writer.  

You can follow Michael on Twitter, and connect with him on Facebook or Digg.

About Matt Kohn 1 Article

Matt Kohn is a thrill-seeker, world traveler, aspiring world changer and part-time comedian (he's not as funny as he thinks). He created A Different Hunger to help others through his passions of fitness, travel, positive psychology and living a life of purpose. If you want to be informed, educated and inspired, check out his site and join the ADH movement!

Connect with Matt online:
Facebook.com/differenthunger
Twitter.com/differenthunger
https://plus.google.com/+Differenthunger0
Instagram.com/killa_kohn

About Christopher Lin 1 Article

Christopher Lin resides in Orange County, CA where he and his partners run a wedding photography studio called Lin and Jirsa Photography

A traveler and entrepreneur at heart, his passion for writing, blogging, photography, design and business has led him to launch SLR Lounge photography tutorials as well as UNDFIND photography bags.

You can connect with SLR Lounge on Facebook or Follow Them on Twitter.

 

About Anna Johansson 1 Article

Anna Johansson is a freelance writer and researcher from the Olympia, WA area who loves to obsess about weird topics and then write about them.

When she isn't writing, she is outside on her bike and contemplating her eventual trip to graduate school.

You can follow Anna on Twitter or connect with her on Google+
About Kimberly Juchnowski 1 Article

Enthusiastic world traveler Kimberly Juchnowski fell in love with Southeast Asia five years ago.  Thailand especially holds a special place in her heart. The culture and people keep her going back each year and she plans to relocate to Northern Thailand in the fall. She is even starting to learn Thai in anticipation for her big move! 

If you want to know about where to go and what to see in Southeast Asia, or even read about common misconceptions about the people and how they live (what Thai girls are really all about?!) you can check it all out on her website Tikikiki.com.

You can Follow Kimberly on Twitter, or Connect with her on Facebook

About Angie Picardo 1 Article

Angie Picardo is a staff writer at NerdWallet, a personal finance site that helps aspiring writers plan their careers and learn when to pay off debt and when to save.

About Penny Watne 1 Article
Penny Watne is a Perennial Travel & Lifestyle Blogger, currently exploring life in Tennessee after living in Costa Rica for 7 years. Join Penny as she seeks out distinctive adventures, extraordinary transformations, and unlimited chips and salsa, in pursuit of a 'pure life'. Connect with Penny on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, or StumbleUpon
About Margo Millure 1 Article

Margo Millure is a professional freelance writer, with many travel publishing credits, and former editor of a women's lifestyle magazine and local tourist publication. She contracted the travel bug in the early 90s, when she and her husband had the opportunity to live in Holland and France for several years.

In December 2008 Margo started her a personal humor blog, Life in the Short Lane.  On one of the days that she didn't think she or her blog were funny at all, The Travel Belles was conceived. Scheduled to launch in March, this magazine style blog is intended to be an encouraging and lively place for women to find travel stories with personal style and inspiration in the voices of many different women.

Margo lives with her family in Myrtle Beach, SC.

You can follow Margo on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gomarwrites

About Christopher Mitchell 1 Article

Christopher Mitchell is a freelance travel writer and photographer. He's been published in magazines spanning the globe, but focuses much of his attention on his travel blog.

Though born in Toronto, he currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey which provides endless material for his writing.

When he's not writing, he's likely reading, over-indulging in culinary delights, or continuing to fill in the blanks on his map of the world.

You can check out more of his work on his travel blog, travelingmitch, on twitter, his facebook page, or instagram. In truth, if you type in "travelingmitch" to any social media site, something will probably come up.

About Jennifer Raezer 1 Article

Over the course of five years, Jennifer and David Raezer traveled the world, read tons of books, followed hundreds of guides and took copious notes. This travel marathon culminated in the creation of Approach Guides, cultural travel guidebooks to Italy, India, China, Turkey, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Approach Guides provides more than just dates and facts; it draws connections among sites and across geographies.

Jennifer and David have also developed Approach Guides Wine, an Italian Wine Guide iPhone App that helps anyone choose a great wine anytime, anywhere in less than a minute.

When not traveling or devising new iPhone applications, David runs Cleantech Approach, a sustainable technology research & advisory organization.  Jennifer is the Director of Regional Marketing for United Way (liveunited.org), one of the largest non-profit organizations in the U.S.  They live in New York City (for now…).

Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ApproachGuides
Become a Fan on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ApproachGuides

About Chris Backe 1 Article

Chris Backe is the blogger behind Chris in South Korea, dedicated to travel and life in Korea.

Since arriving three years ago, Chris has made it a point to visit one new place, event, or festival around Korea every week. He recently finished writing an e-book entitled 'Korean Made Easy', which makes learning Korean quite easy for anyone coming to Korea. It's available for the Kindle, the Nook, and anywhere PDF's are readable; a paper version is coming soon!

Follow Chris on Twitter or connect with him on Facebook.

About Rose Walker 1 Article

Rose Walker is an internationally published freelance writer, columnist, writing instructor and owner of Rose Walker Writing Consultants where she consults with writers on traveling, movie screenplays, freelance, novels and research.

She has written a five article miniseries for the British magazine, The New Writer and taught writing classes at University of Memphis and Christian Brothers University.

You can learn more about Rose at her website: http://rwalkerwritingconsults.webs.com

About Linda Craig 1 Article

Linda Craig is an eager traveler, editor at AssignmentMasters essay service and passionate blogger. Her favourite destinations are Brazil and Nepal. Feel free to find her on Twitter.

About Karen Gibson 1 Article

Karen Gibson is a freelance writer with more years of writing experience than she wants to admit. In addition to writing fiction for adults and nonfiction for children, she writes travel articles and features for various publishers. Her destination articles often focus on the southern or southwestern United States.

Karen has been published in magazines and websites for publications such as Midwest Traveler, Home & Away, Southern Traveler, Backpacker, Military Times, Camping Today, Oklahoma Today, and Motorhome. Additionally, she has provided writing and editing for Fodor Travel Guides, including The Old West, USA Guide, Gold Guide, and Road Guide series.

You can connect with Karen on LinkedIn.

About Shirley Pattison 1 Article

Shirley Pattison is the community director at BlogsRelease and also a huge fan of travelling. One of her favorite aspects of working at BlogsRelease is that she gets to read so many travel blogs that inspire and motivate her.

When she's not working you can find her at the beach with watermelon and a coffee.

You can connect with Shirley on Twitter, or with BlogsRelease on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, or Google+

About Rensina van den Heuvel 1 Article

Rensina van den Heuvel lives on a remote property, when she is not traveling.  

Rensina and her partner run “grass roots…off the tourist tracks” expeditions to Mongolia and Outback Australia. 

Russian Documents…Mongolian Dust is Rensina’s first book.  She  also writes  travel articles for E-zines and magazines.

You can order Rensina's book at http://www.wilderness-agencies.com.au/page7.html

About Veronica Pamoukaghlian 1 Article

Veronica Pamoukaghlian is a Uruguayan filmmaker and poet. She is the travel blogger at http://thewanderlife.com

After studying film in Uruguay and Cuba, and receiving her Master´s in Screenwriting in Spain, she has just completed her first feature film, a documentary co-produced with the United States, which will premiere this year. In the past, Veronica has been an English literature teacher, a cruise ship Youth staff, and a music producer. 

Her poetry page can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=43755923056

You can follow Veronica on twitter at http://twitter.com/verozoneuy

About Robyn Vinter 1 Article

Robyn Vinter is a former journalist who has worked on both local and national newspapers and magazines in the UK over the past few years. Having graduated top of her class with a First Class Honours degree in Journalism from Leeds Metropolitan University, she now works as a travel blogger at looking4parking.com.

About Donna L. Hull 1 Article

Donna L. Hull specializes in writing travel and human interest content for online and print publications. 

Donna's popular blog, My Itchy Travel Feet, (http://myitchytravelfeet.com) explores the world of active travel for baby boomers, encouraging boomers to get up off the couch and go.

Follow Donna on Twitter or connect with her on Facebook.

About Adam Costa 1 Article
About Derbhile Dromey 1 Article

Derbhile Graham is a freelance writer, originally from Clonmel. Co Tipperary, but now living in Tramore, Co. Waterford. She is the author of The Pink Cage, first published by Book Republic in 2011, now self-published.

Derbhile loves nothing more than to help other people tell their story. She has given creative writing classes for the Bealtaine Festival, Waterford Festival of Learning and Waterford Healing Arts.

Derbhile also runs a writing and editing service called WriteWords, which offers content creation, editing, training and writing consultancy services. She blogs at World of Writing, www.writerlyderv.wordpress.com. You can Follow Derbhile on Twitter, Find WriteWords on Facebook, or connect with Derbhile on LinkedIn.

About Colleen Lanin 1 Article
Colleen Lanin is the creator and editor of TravelMamas.com, a site for parents who want to travel with children…and stay sane! She is a freelance writer and author of the upcoming book, The Travel Mamas’ Guide. She has written articles for such magazines as Babytalk, San Diego Family, and 101 Things To Do San Diego. She lives in San Diego with her husband and two children. You can follow her on Twitter at @TravelMamas.