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 …
Interview: Diane Caldwell
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 …
Interview: Landon Spencer
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.
Interview with Marcy Gordon
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 …
Interview with Beebe Bahrami
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.
Interview with A. Kendra Greene
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 …
Interview with Liz Sinclair
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.
Interview with Mary Caperton Morton
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.
Interview with Marisa Handler
Our first featured contributor of Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 is not only an author, activist, speaker, and singer-songwriter, she is — by her own admission — a viajera loca (crazy traveler!). The author of Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a 2008 Nautilus Gold Award for world-changing books, Marisa Handler has also written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Salon.com, The Sun, and Bitch. She speaks and sings about visionary social change all over the country.