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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, and has contributed to Travel + Leisure, The Advocate, Sunset, New Mexico Magazine, Out Magazine and various AAA publications. He holds a BA from Wesleyan University.
Rita Cook serves as a travel editor and editor-in-chief for Insider magazine and is a travel radio host on TheInsiderMag.com radio show. She is also editor-in-chief of Celeb Staff/Celeb Life Magazines and in the past she served as editorial director of Premier Bride and editor-in-chief for Metro Passport magazine. She is a travel correspondent for North Star Media and writes travel columns for RomanceEverAfter, Focus Daily Daily, Waxahachie Daily Light and Valley Scene Magazine. She has written for such publications as Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Indulge Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Porthole, Airliner Magazine, Pilot Getaways, Cruisemates, Eco Florida, Caribbean Travel Planner, Greatest Escapes, Dreamscapes Travel Magazine, Travelwise, Off-Road, Destinations, National Motorist, Contemporary Bride, Senior View, and Packaged Travel Insider. She holds a BA from Roosevelt 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, and Slate. He holds a BA from University California, Santa Cruz and an MA from San Francisco State University.
Valerie Gladstone has written travel and arts articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Gobe, the Los Angeles Times, Travel + Leisure, Harpers, Newsweek, the Daily News, the Nation, Town and Country, Artnews, and many others, including such websites as The Root and Artinfo. She is the author of the A Young Dancer (Henry Holt) and several other nonfiction books, and she has served as a radio journalist and documentary producer. She has taught at City College of City University.
Cliff Hopkinson has served as deputy managing editor of The Observer and editorial director of Haymarket Press and Gemini Publishing, for which he wrote and published the information kit Touchdown on the Moon, an international best-seller. He has also served as deputy editor of U.S. News and World Report and managing editor of Conde Nast Traveler. As a journalist and critic, he has written numerous pieces for a wide array of newspapers and magazines. Also Teaches:  Article Writing  
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.
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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