Debi Lander is a freelance journalist, blogger and photographer with a passion for food and drink.  Bylandersea-Food Tales, her food blog, features culinary articles, restaurant, cookbook and product reviews as well as  recipes from her world-wide journeys. She also includes bite size nuggets about what’s happening in my own kitchen. Debi honestly presents her likes and dislikes, successes and failures. Someday… she will get around to writing her own cookbook. She is a member of the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association and Society of American Travel Writers.

Website:  www.bylandersea.com  |  Blog: Bylandersea-Food Tales  |  IFWTWA Profile

Susan Lanier-Graham is a freelance travel and food journalist. In addition to hundreds of print articles and various online outlets, Susan also writes about life’s “wow” moments, many involving food, at www.WanderWithWonder.com.  Susan has been writing about food, restaurants and doing product reviews for over two decades and believes that cuisine usually defines the soul of a culture. Susan is currently the Go Dine! columnist for Go Gilbert! magazine in Arizona where she explores area dining, products, suppliers and experiences for Phoenix-area readers. Susan is a member of International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association.

Blog: www.wanderwithwonder.com | Website: www.susanlaniergraham.com | IFWTWA Profile

A native of Washington State, Heather stills enjoy playing tourist in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. A travel writer who has contributed to numerous publications, she is often asked to cover stories of the amazing food and wine, unique climate and stunning terrain found in her own backyard. Relying on past experiences and future explorations, she is regarded as an expert in the region.

Contact: writemix@harbornet.com

While editor of the Asbury Park Sunday Press, New Jersey’s second largest newspaper, Si Liberman launched his newspaper’s restaurant reviewer column by serving as one of its first critics. Dining and travel have always been a passion and has continued in retirement — as do his stories about those extraordinary experiences which have graced travel and food pages of almost every major U.S. newspaper.

Website: www.natja.org/member/siliberman

John Lamkin writes and photographs about travel, food, wine, gear and much more.  When not traveling the world, he spits his time between home in a northern New Mexico village and his house on a pristine lake in southern Mexico.

He has been an artist, editor, engineer, musician….

He is a board member and Global Membership Chair of the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA); a member of the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA); the International Travel Writers Alliance (ITWA); a standing member of the International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW); a member of MediaBistro.com’s AvantGuild, and Travelwriters.com.

John writes and photographs for LuxuryLatinAmerica.com, Luxury Avenue Magazine, Suite101, YourLifeIsATrip.com, Taos Magazine, Examiner.com, Reuters America and The Syndicated News.

He uses blogging and social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tripatini, Foursquare, Wine & Hospitality, Wine 2.0, Menuism, Table12, Foh Boh, and so on) extensively in his journalistic work.

Interviews with John Lamkin can be found at: http://bit.ly/p6gzaz & http://bit.ly/nVhZU2

Website: http://TravelWritingAndPhotography.com  |   IFWTWA Profile