Clive Branson (Bermuda on a Scooter) is an advertising Creative Director/Copywriter with over 17 years of experience. He presently lives in Ottawa, Ontario, working with several international and local agencies on a freelance capacity as well as being the Joint-Creative Director with Hangar 13, an award-winning design/advertising agency.

California, USA

Amanda Kendle (An Australian in Lapland) is an Australian addicted to traveling. She has lived and worked in Japan, Slovakia and Germany, and spends her free time writing about past trips and planning future ones. Finances for these come from her job as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, and she worries that she learns more from her students than they do from her. Find out more at www.amandakendle.com or follow her travel writing life at www.notaballerina.blogspot.com.

Heilbronn, Germany

Will Kern (Babysitting in a Thai Orphanage) is an award-winning travel writer, playwright, and screenwriter. He lives across the street from Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Check him out at: www.willkern.com.

California, USA

Antonia Malchik (Uluru) currently lives in upstate New York, but hopes to return someday to her native Montana. She has lived and worked in several countries, and her long-term dream is to take an extended journey through the Middle East. She is working on her first book, a travel memoir about her lifelong relationship with Russia. Her essays can be read at www.travelwriters.com/antoniamalchik.

New York, USA

Elaine Oswald (Mountain Top Magic: New Year’s Eve in Peru) is a British woman living in Tennessee, USA, where she is a professor of English. She has published several articles and is completing her book on the modern need for elegies, or words that help people deal with grief as well as other cultural forms of mourning such as the Holocaust Museum and the World Trade Center Memorial. In her travels, Elaine loves to find the spirit of a country through its people, their literature, and, of course, how they commemorate their dead.

Tennessee, USA

Alyson Purssell (Seven Days in Tibet) is a writer whose love of travel and adventure have taken her to India, China, Russia, South America and a host of other countries. She lives in the Lake District, U.K. where her travel articles have appeared in local publications. In collaboration with other Lakes-based women writers, she has written a play Heft as a Herdwick for the BBC. 

Cumbria, UK

Bob Schulman (Cancun) is a freelance travel who contributes to Frontier Airlines’ inflight magazine, Denver Post, Another Day in Paradise Magazine, La Oferta and other publications. In an earlier life, as Bob puts it, he was one of the four principal founders of Frontier Airlines and served as a vice president until he retired. Before this, he held senior public relations posts with four other airlines. He is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the Mexico Writers Alliance.

Colorado, USA

Louise Schutte (Big Apple Greeter) is a freelance writer with a penchant for travel. Little did she know that her first story, written when she was eight years old about a trip to Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, would eventually lead to her exciting career writing for various international publications including Traveler’s Tales. In addition to travel writing, Louise also researches and writes about a wide variety of health topics and has achieved recognition for her essays. She can be reached at LouiseSchutte@shaw.ca.

Alberta, Canada

Susan Van Allen (La Befana) is a Los Angeles based writer. She has written for the sit-com “Everybody Loves Raymond” and about her travels for National Public Radio’s “Savvy Traveler,” CNN.com, and various newspapers and magazines.