Naomi Melati Bishop was born in Indonesia to odd soul mates: a Javanese princess and a wild New Yorker dad. She moved to NYC when she was eleven, where she currently resides with her daughter and partner. Naomi earned her MFA at NYU’s Graduate Creative Writing Program and works as a writer, editor, and teacher. Naomi runs an editing service, TheEdit.nyc, and is currently at work on her first book, a memoir about her mysterious origins, new motherhood, her parents' love story, and her inheritance of worldwide adventures.

Kimberley’s work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, The Best Travel Writing, and the Saturday Evening Post. Kimberley is also the author of several travel-themed books, including Walnut Wine and Truffle Groves, which was awarded a gold Lowell Thomas award in 2012.

"Pretty Red" first appeared in American Way in 2014

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Maxine is an award-winning children’s book author and travel essayist, whose essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Christian Science Monitor. Her memoir, Places in Time, was named the 2006 Best Travel Book of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association and was awarded a Gold Lowell Thomas award. The book will be reprinted in 2022 by Adelaide Books.

First appeared in the Best Women’s Travel Writing Volume 11

Abbie spent the first many years of her career in the world of women’s magazines, where she wrote and edited for the likes of Glamour, Allure, and Cosmo. She is the author of the National Geographic book, The World’s Most Romantic Destinations, and she has recently contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

Marcia is the New York Times bestselling author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go, and she contributes to Vogue, Town & Country, Travel & Leisure, O the Oprah Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Tin House, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her book of essays, A HARD PLACE TO LEAVE, will be published in 2022.

Maggie Downs is the author of the memoir Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetime, published in 2020 by Counterpoint Press. Her work has been anthologized in Best Women’s Travel Writing and Lonely Planet’s True Stories From the World’s Best Writers, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and McSweeney’s, among others. She is based in Palm Springs, California.

Jill writes about travel and adventure for National Geographic, AFAR, Travel + Leisure, Outside, Food & Wine, Men’s Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. She’s the editor for GuestLife Monterey Bay, and her book, 100 Things to Do in San Francisco Before You Die, 2nd edition, was released in 2018. She has won Lowell Thomas, Society of American Travel Writers, and American Society of Journalists and Authors awards.

Suzanne’s books include the memoir in travel essays, Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, the forthcoming essay collection Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties, and four books of poems. She was named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler Magazine, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, and elsewhere.

Mathangi is an Indian American writer and educator whose middle grades novel, Dear Mrs. Naidu, won the South Asia book award. Her novel A People’s History of Heaven was a finalist for the LAMBDA literary awards and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and the Center for Fiction first book prize. Her personal essays and op-eds have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and Al Jazeera America, among others.

Natalie is the author of Queen Sugar, which has been adapted for a fifth television season by and co-produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. Her new non-fiction book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Memory, was published by HarperCollins in April, 2021.