An immigrant from the former Soviet Union where travel abroad was forbidden, Lina Zeldovich has shimmied with belly dancers in Turkey, cooked a zebu stew in Madagascar, fished for piranhas in the Amazon, sipped a drink made from a venomous snake in Peru—and always lived to write the story. Her award-winning narratives about travel, food, nature, adventure and sustainability have appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, AARP, BBC, Sierra Club, AFAR, and in-flight magazines.