Contributors

Julie Schwietert Collazo is a bilingual journalist whose geographic areas of expertise are Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. She also co-authored the international bestseller Pope Francis in His Own Words, and has authored or contributed to Michelin Havana, Fodor’s Puerto Rico, DK Eyewitness Mexico, and MOON New York State.

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Jenny Hart is a travel writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She contributes to a variety of publications, including Travel Weekly, Southwest: The Magazine and VICE. She loves scuba diving, horseback riding, and singing karaoke.

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Kellie Lafranchi is a Melbourne-based freelance photographer always chasing light with camera in hand. Inspired by nature and a curiosity of the world, she specializes in documenting compelling visual subjects and the stories that unfold through them.

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Nevin Martell is a freelance writer who has been published by the Washington Post, New York Times, Travel + Leisure, and has authored seven books, including the travelogue-memoir Freak Show Without a Tent.

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Corinne Redfern is an award-winning journalist with a decade’s experience in women’s rights and human interest stories. In the last year, she’s filed from four continents, including the Zika outbreak in Brazil. Former features director for Marie Claire, she’s written for The Guardian, Telegraph, Sunday Times, Stylist, Grazia and ELLE.

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Ash Bhardwaj is a travel writer, adventure filmmaker, and motivational speaker based in London. He has filmed in mountains, jungles, and deserts, and is now on a quest to meet his heroes and learn new skills.

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A British travel writer who spends worrying amounts of time on the far side of the world, David Whitley has a passion for all things outback and out-of-the-ordinary. His work can be found in National Geographic Traveller UK, Sunday Times Travel Magazine and the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Adrienne Jordan is a freelance travel writer with credits that include National Geographic Traveler and BBC Travel. Some of her standout adventures include gorilla trekking in Uganda, cruising the fjords of Norway, and swimming in the Devil’s Pool in Zambia.

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Emma Thomson is an award-winning travel writer whose trips include an unsupported expedition across Namibia’s Skeleton Coast and traveling along the Silk Road. She often covers countries recovering from natural disaster or political upheaval, writing features to help travelers regain trust in these destinations.

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Taryn is a freelance writer, editor and sometimes music manager from Melbourne. She previously edited Beat Magazine and was the founding editor of travel title AWOL. Now she spends her time typing at home, turning records over and talking to her dog.

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Valerie Conners is an editor, producer, writer, and nomad at heart. Her work is featured in Travelers’ Tales Best Women’s Travel Writing, Condé Nast Traveler, BBC Travel, and more. She strives to “do it now.”

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Shafik Meghji is an award-winning travel journalist, broadcaster and co-author of over 30 Rough Guides. He has written for publications around the world, including The Guardian, Independent, and South China Morning Post. Recent trips have taken him down the Mekong, across the Amazon, and the far reaches of Patagonia’s Tierra del Fuego.

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Jody MacDonald is an award-winning adventure sport and documentary photographer. For the last decade, she was the resident photographer on a 60-foot catamaran on a global kiteboarding, paragliding and surfing expedition to explore the wildest corners of the planet.

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Canadian travel journalist Kristin Kent is not one to pass up a quest. She’s slept on sea ice in polar bear country. She’s sailed the roaring Pacific Ocean. When not traveling on assignment, you’ll likely find Kristin exploring her home province of beautiful British Columbia.

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Andrew Eames is a London-based travel writer, broadcaster and ex-newspaper journalist. The author of five travel books, he also runs a website about Germany, speaks at travel writing seminars, and writes for British publications from the Financial Times to the Sunday Mirror.

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Max Olijnyk is a writer, editor, photographer, and ageing skateboarder. He used to live in Melbourne, but now lives in Featherston, New Zealand with his family. His first book Some Stories was released in 2016. His favorite place to travel to is, predictably, New York City.

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Graeme Green is a UK journalist, photographer, travel writer and editor, currently based in Mexico. He writes about and photographs adventure travel, wildlife and culture for publications including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Wanderlust, BBC Travel and the South China Morning Post.

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Marianna Jamadi is a half-Finnish, half-Indonesian, globetrotting photographer in search of authentic experiences. Nomadic in spirit, but steady in heart, she is based in Long Beach, CA, when she is not crossing borders and oceans.

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Ian Lloyd Neubauer is a Sydney-based freelance journalist and photojournalist specializing in off-road motorbike travel, sharks and Papua New Guinea. His work has been published by TIME, The Economist, The Guardian, The Telegraph, BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera.

Caroline Eden is a regular contributor to The Guardian, FT, Telegraph and BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. She specializes in emerging destinations, mainly in the ex-Soviet Union, is the author of ‘Samarkand—recipes and stories from Central Asia and the Caucasus’ and has spoken at the Royal Geographical Society and Frontline Club.

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