This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has circumnavigated the globe in her search for food so spicy, she’d ignite on contact (as she once watched her grandfather do): Alison Stein Wellner. She is the culinary travel guide for…
Through her wanderings on five continents, this week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has learned to shear sheep, cultivate rice, sail without a G.P.S., and edit a state-run newspaper with a straight face: Christine Buckley. Her LA Weekly cover…
This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has had a rather scintillating career, writing about books and bodies for publications like Bust, Elle, Red, and Best Sex Writing 2010: Johanna Gohmann. An Indiana native, she currently resides in Dublin Ireland and…
Stifling her sobs and dabbing her eyes, this week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor boarded a plane to Greece in 2003 and hasn’t returned home to the United States since: Diane Caldwell. The 2009 Solas Awards gold medalist for…
After receiving a master's degree in English, this week's Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 contributor ran away from academia and joined the circus: Landon Spencer.
This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor is a Northern Californian who loves to eat, drink, and travel: Marcy Gordon. An editor for the Authentic Italy guidebook series, she is currently writing a memoir called Come for the Wine, Stay…
This week's Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 contributor is a writer and anthropologist who has intimately explored the cultures, languages, peoples, and histories of the western Mediterranean world:Beebe Bahrami. The author of The Spiritual Traveler: Spain -- A Guide to Sacred Sites and Pilgrim Routes, she has also written for the Michelin Green Guides, National Geographic books, and Archaeology magazine.
This week’s featured Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor has vaccinated wild boars in Chilean zoos, confirmed that a certain Turkish wonder of the world is now just a single pillar in a swamp of turtles, and occasionally felt like a…
This week, we are spotlighting a Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 contributor who is American by birth and global by inclination, dividing her time between Melbourne and Bali: Liz Sinclair. A freelancetravel writer who volunteers as a grant writer for a maternal health foundation for poor families in Indonesia, Liz also keeps a blog, Raising Ellyanna, that documents her unexpected foray into motherhood with her Indonesian foster daughter.
This week's featured Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 contributor is a mountain-scaling, photo-snapping, science-and-travel-writing vagabond who once lived in an off-the-grid solar "Earthship" in rural New Mexico: Mary Caperton Morton. Her stories have been published in EARTH Magazine, Smithsonian, and Climbing, to name a few.