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Grant Martin
Editor-in-chief (email | Twitter)
Grant Martin is the editor in chief of Gadling.com. Specializing in consumer travel, the airline industry and logistics, his travels have taken him far and wide around the world and he now contributes to Gadling from Chicago, Illinois.
Don George
Features Editor (Twitter)
National Geographic has called Don George a “legendary travel writer and editor.” Don has been Global Travel Editor for Lonely Planet Publications, Founder and Editor of Salon.com's acclaimed and groundbreaking travel site, “Wanderlust,” and Travel Editor at the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. Don has written the best-selling how-to book about travel writing, The Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing. He has also edited six award-winning anthologies of travel tales, including The Kindness of Strangers, Tales from Nowhere, and By the Seat of My Pants. He has published more than 1000 articles in magazines and newspapers around the globe, including Conde Nast Traveler, Travel Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, the Los Angeles Times Magazine and Islands. He has received dozens of awards for his writing and editing, including the Society of American Travel Writers Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year Award and the Pacific Asia Travel Association's Gold Award for Best Travel Article of the Year. He appears frequently on NPR, CNN, and other TV and radio outlets. He is co-founder and chairman of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, and is a highly sought-after conference keynote speaker.
Mike Barish
Blogger (Twitter)
Mike Barish is a freelance travel writer and regular contributor to Gadling. He focuses on the lighter side of travel by taking a comedic look at his own trips and the industry in general. He is also a universally respected expert in the SkyMall catalog. He is based in New York City.
Kraig Becker
Blogger (Twitter)
Kraig is a world traveler who enjoys visiting and trekking through remote, off the grid, places. Based out of Austin, TX, he writes about mountaineering, polar exploration, adventure travel, and other outdoor pursuits.
Joel Bullock
Blogger
Joel Bullock is a roller coaster enthusiast that has always loved reading and writing reviews of all kinds. In 2006, he decided to merge his passions for coasters and writing by starting a successful theme park blog. He provides in-depth roller coaster reviews, trip reports detailing his travel experiences, and his take on the latest theme park news. He's been interviewed by and been a consultant to local, national, and international media outlets including the New York Times and the Travel Channel. Currently, he's ridden over 200 roller coasters and has visited more than 30 theme parks. In an interesting twist of fate, a few years ago he found out that he was born on National Roller Coaster Day. Visit his site at: The Coaster Critic's Blog.
Justin Delaney
Blogger (Twitter)
Justin Delaney is a freelance writer and photographer with a penchant for developing countries. A student of finance, he began traveling the world during the Great Recession, day trading his way from country to country. He is located in Dallas, Tx with his beautiful fiance Kristin and is heading to business school for his masters in the Fall of 2011. His photographs can be found at justindelaney.com, and his personal blog is located at goboogo.com. Feel free to solicit him with any travel related start-up ideas.
David Downie
Blogger
David Downie's books about Genoa and the Italian Riviera include Food Wine Italian Riviera & Genoa and Enchanted Liguria: A Celebration of the Culture, Lifestyle and Food of the Italian Riviera. His travel memoir Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light, which Jan Morris called "Perhaps the most evocative American book about Paris since A Moveable Feast," will be reissued in 2011 by Broadway Books. His latest books are Paris City of Night, a classic thriller set in Paris, and the forthcoming Quiet Corners of Rome (spring 2011). His website is www.davidddownie.com.
David Farley
Blogger (Twitter)
David Farley is an eater, imbiber, traveler, and writer. While on the road, he's been known to eschew a museum for street food, a show for a salt-of-the-earth restaurant. He's the author of "An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town" (Penguin/Gotham Books, 2009) and co-editor of "Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories" (Travelers' Tales, 2006). He has blogged for World Hum and currently contributes to the New York Times' travel section blog, "In Transit." His writing also appears in Travel and Leisure. Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Slate.com and the travel sections of The New York Times and The Washington Post. He teaches travel writing at New York University and Gotham Writers' Workshop.
Jessica Festa
Blogger (Twitter)
Jessica Festa is a New-York based freelance travel writer who is always up for an adventure, especially if it’s in another country. Some of her experiences include studying in Sydney, teaching English in Thailand, hiking her way through China, working in an Orphanage in Ghana, and backpacking Europe solo. Along with Gadling, Jessica often contributes to Rum Bum, the Matador Travel Network, and Europe a la Carte. You can check out her personal travel blog at http://jessieonajourney.com.
Stephen Greenwood
Blogger, Video Producer, and Host of Travel Talk | (Twitter)
Stephen Greenwood is a writer and producer based in California. After completing studies in documentary film at UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television, he has directed and appeared in a number of documentary pieces, including an award winning short for the National Council on Aging. Stephen's work has taken him to 15 countries over four continents, in partnership with humanitarian organizations from Tanzania, Madagascar, Thailand and the UK. He currently resides in California, producing and hosting Gadling TV's Travel Talk.
Jeremy Kressmann
Blogger (Twitter)
Jeremy Kressmann is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Jeremy first caught the travel bug as an exchange student to Costa Rica in 1998, kicking off more than a decade of globetrotting that has taken him to over 30 countries on 6 continents. His current travel obsessions include Catalan tapas, 1970's Nigerian Funk music and Japanese cell phone culture.
Sean McLachlan
Blogger (Twitter)
Sean worked for ten years as an archaeologist in Israel, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and the U.S. before becoming a full-time writer specializing in history and travel. He got his start with Byzantium: An Illustrated History published by Hippocrene Books, followed by a trio of books on Missouri: It Happened in Missouri (TwoDot), Missouri: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene), and Outlaw Tales of Missouri (TwoDot). Now he’s focusing on military history and has several projects with Osprey Publishing, including the already-published American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics and Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons. This last title is the only book in English on the early development of the firearm.
When not buried in archives or hunched over a laptop, you can find him hiking, prowling around museums, ransacking bookshops, watching B-movies, and online at MidlistWriter.
Laurel Miller
Blogger (Twitter)
Laurel Miller is a food and adventure travel writer and cooking instructor newly relocated to Seattle, after two years of surfing couches in Colorado and the Bay Area. She grew up on a California ranch, which is what inspired her to educate people about sustainable agriculture. She is a contributing editor to culture magazine, and also writes for Outside, Sunset, American Cowboy, Edible Seattle, Edible Aspen, and Seattle’s The Stranger. She was recently named a Top 3 finalist at the Edible Communities EDDY Awards for her profile of a Washington state turkey farm, which even she admits is an odd thing to receive professional recognition for. From 2001 to 2009, she wrote the popular “Fork in the Road” food travel column for The Oakland Tribune/BANG Newspapers. Despite her tendency to acquire tropical and gastrointestinal diseases, Laurel lives to travel and when she’s not freelancing, she can be found in various developing nations indulging her street food obsession. Her Dana Designs backpack and supply of Cipro will have to be pried from her cold, dead fingers. Learn more about Laurel at SustainableKitchen.com.
Meg Nesterov
Blogger (Twitter)
Meg Nesterov is a travel and hotel publicist based in Brooklyn and currently living in Istanbul. She can also be found posting animal videos on Twitter, seeking out pork products in Turkey, and erratically writing at thenotoriousmeg.com.
Chris Owen
Blogger | (Twitter)
Chris Owen is a travel writer, blogger and agent from Orlando Florida charged with sharing frank, inside information on cruise vacations with travelers. A graduate of Washburn University in Topeka Kansas, Chris moved to Florida after successful careers in the restaurant and newspaper business to focus singly on travel with a concentration on cruise vacations. Certified a Master Cruise Counselor by the Cruise Lines International Association, Chris can be found via his popular cruise vacations column on Examiner.com, through his blog, ChrisCruises.net and on his long-running cruise information website, YourCruiseDream.com.
Heather Poole
Blogger (Twitter)
Heather Poole is a flight attendant for a major US carrier. She lives in California and is based in New York, so if there's one thing she knows, besides bad food and uncomfortable seats, it's what it's like -- really like -- to work in a germ infested flying tube at 35,000 feet. Besides Gadling, her work can be found in the 2010 Best of Women's Travel Writing anthology. She's also in the process of working on a book of essays written in chronological order of her life as a flight attendant scheduled to be released by Harper Collins during the summer of 2011.
McLean Robbins
Blogger | (Twitter)
McLean Robbins is a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, editor and SEO whiz. She joined the Gadling team in late summer 2010 to cover general travel content and anything else she can beg from the editors. When she's not traveling the world in search of the latest and greatest luxury hotel, spa or fashion trend, McLean is hitting the streets of our nation's capital with her trusty German Shepherd, Deacon, with whom she writes a daily blog. In addition to regular contributions to AOL's Luxist.com and work with AOL Travel, her work has appeared in Forbes Travel Guide, Robb Report, The Washingtonian, DailyCandy, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons and many more.
Elizabeth Seward
Blogger (Twitter)
Elizabeth Seward has devoted her life to writing and music. As a traveling musician, she started to notice that some of the most spectacular places to see in places across the globe aren't your typical tourist spots and because of that, she launched The Anti Tourist. She's since been a freelance travel writer, published with Discovery's planetgreen.com and National Geographic's intelligenttravelblog.com among others.
She mostly spends her time making music (www.elizabethseward.tumblr.
Alex Robertson Textor
Blogger -- Budget Czar (Twitter)
Alex Robertson Textor is a freelance writer with a focus on budget travel and local culture. He has written for the New York Times, New York Post, Guardian Unlimited, Budget Travel, Miami Herald, VTravelled, Monocle, Condé Nast Traveler, Rough Guides, Re:Porter, EuroCheapo, and gay.com, among other publications. His work can also be seen at www.alexrobertsontextor.com and koucou.com. He lives in Brooklyn.
Kent Wien
Blogger (Twitter)
Kent Wien currently lives in Germany and commutes to New York where he is a co-pilot for a major U.S. airline. Prior to that, he flew for Era in Alaska, where he's originally from.
He's been writing for Gadling since 2008, covering the airline industry from a line pilot's perspective and sharing the view with photos and videos along the way.
For more on the day-to-day happenings with Kent, check out the Cockpit Chronicles Facebook page.
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