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"The instructor's extensive knowledge of travel writing and her professional experience were very valuable…"
- Lucia Kegan
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Travel Writing Faculty
Andrew Collins has served as editor and writer on more than 150 guidebooks for Fodor's, Moon Handbooks, and Zagat guides. He’s the expert "guide" on gay and lesbian travel for the website About.com, a regular travel contributor to FoxNews.com, and has contributed to Travel + Leisure, The Advocate, Sunset, New Mexico Magazine, SOBeFIT, and various AAA publications. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University.
David Farley is the author of the travel memoir An Irreverent Curiosity (Penguin) and the co-editor of Travelers’ Tales Prague and the Czech Republic. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel, Slate, and WorldHum.com. He holds a BA from University California, Santa Cruz and an MA from San Francisco State University.
Colleen Kinder is the author of the guidebook Delaying the Real World (Running Press), and she co-edited the essay anthology Confessions of a High School Nerd (Penguin). Her articles and essays on travel and current events have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Salon, the New Republic, Transitions Abroad, Ms., Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Quarterly West, Ninth Letter, A Public Space, and Prairie Schooner, and the anthologies A Woman’s World Again (Traveler’s Tales) and 20-Something Essays by 20-Something Writers (Random House). She has taught at the University of Iowa. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.
Mike Luongo has written about travel for such publications as the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Bloomberg News, National Geographic Traveler, the Advocate, and Out Traveler. He has written or edited several travel books, including Frommers Buenos Aires, Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex, and Gay Travels in the Muslim World. He has taught at NYU. He holds a BA and an MCRP in Urban Planning, both from Rutgers University.
Kurt Opprecht has written articles and essays for such publications as the New York Times, the Economist, TimeOut New York, Glamour, World Art, PDN, Women’s Own, the New York Sun, Look Japan, Tokyo Journal, Honeymoon, Endless Vacation, Wired, Swoon, and MinorityInterest. He is the editor of the satirical book Billionaires for Bush: How to Rule the World for Fun and Profit (Thunder’s Mouth Press). He holds a BA from Reed College and a BS from Southern Utah University. Also Teaches:  Creative Writing 101  
Douglas Rogers has written for Travel + Leisure, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler and Town & Country Travel. He is the author of the forthcoming memoir The Last Resort (Crown/Random House). He holds a BA from Rhodes University in South Africa.

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