I am the author of a travel memoir, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland (1991, Ticknor & Fields); a collection of travel stories, A Way to See the World: From Texas to Transylvania with a Maverick Traveler (2003, The Lyons Press); and The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them (2016, Skyhorse Publishing). My work has been included in The Best American Travel Writing 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2014.. I have written for The American Scholar, Oxford American, North American Review, Missouri Review, Wilson Quarterly, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Columbia Journalism Review, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, Literary Hub, Longreads, Roads & Kingdoms, Los Angeles Review of Books, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Book Review.Specialties: Travel writing, essays, book reviews, humor.
Listed skills include Travel Writing, Book Reviews, Teaching, Freelance Writing, and 14 others.