Marti Mayne specializes in the B&B industry, as both a freelance writer and consultant. Marti Mayne has recently added travel writing to her repertoire, providing stories for the Birds Eye View, the inflight magazine for Cape Air, Geico Magazine, and NHtoDo Magazine.  She is the B&B Examiner for Boston’s Examiner.com guide, the B&B Editor for WanderingEducators.com and a regular contributor to EllenBarone.com, one of the oldest travel blogs.  She also contributes active family stories to www.EasternSlopes.com. Marti Mayne has a Master’s Degree in Counseling from the University of Bridgeport and an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in Psychology and Sociology.  She lives on Cousins Island, ME with her husband and two daughters adopted from China.

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Steve is a travel writer, helping readers gain a better understanding of food through travel via his own blog gastrotraveling.com as well as through regular contributions to foodbuzz.com,foodspotting.com and until recently istopover magazine.  He believes that distinctive cuisine and life-changing travel experiences are best savored by those who are driven by curiosity rather than being the sole province of wine connoisseurs, gourmands, and jet setters.

Renée Gordon has written a weekly travel column for the Philadelphia Sun Newspaper for the past fifteen years and has published articles on local, national and international travel in numerous publications. Her columns focus on cultural, historic and heritage tourism and her areas of specialization are sites and attractions related to African American and African Diaspora history, travel services and products. Her focus is on the complete destination including culinary specialties, wines, accommodations and under reported aspects of travel. Renée has been a guest radio commentator on various aspects of tourism and currently guests monthly on WPEB Radio Station (88.1) as a travel commentator. Renée considers herself a “missionary journalist” and as such she continues to promote heritage and sustainable tourism. She is a member of several professional organizations and is requested speaker on cultural travel.

Website: www.philasun.com/travel  |  IFWTWA Bio

Pam Jackson is the owner of Skipping Stars Productions, a consulting firm that provides events in Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek, AZ.   Additionally Pam founded the East Valley Women’s Culinary, Skipping Stars Cuisine, Skipping Stars Test Kitchen, Town & Country Chocolate Lovers Club, Town & Country Wine Travel Club, TableScapes Network Dinners, East Valley Public Market Project, Skipping Stars Reviews and the Tree City News.

Together with Maralyn Hill, they founded the Arizona Blue Ribbon Pie Round-Up & Bake-Off, an official Arizona Centennial Event.

Prior to her current position she served as senior production coordinator and account specialist/writer/producer for News America Marketing in Wilton, Connecticut.

For more, visit Skipping Stars.com  &  ArizonaBlueRibbonPieRoundup

Ms. Teynor is a freelance writer – specializing in culinary writing and travel – and works full-time in the health and wellness industry as a technical writer. She and her family reside in beautiful Missoula, Montana where for three years, they owned and operated a small restaurant in Missoula.  Here, Ms. Teynor became masterful at creating an extensive network of business and vendor relationships and learned much about the food industry.  She has also proven herself as a freelance writer and editor for numerous journal agencies and corporate clients.  Ms. Teynor is a member of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals, American Medical Writers Association, International Food, Wine, & Travel Writers Association, and Missoula Businesswomen’s Network.

Websites:  www.livingtowrite.com  &  http://thymetotravel.wordpress.com | IFWTWA Profile

Sandra Chambers  is currently a freelance writer for Allegiant’s in-flight magazine, Sunseeker, as well as several lifestyle magazines and newspapers including Wrightsville Beach Magazine, Lumina News, North Brunswick Magazine, South Brunswick Magazine, and her online website/blog, Southern-Traveller.com.  

Some of her favorite places to visit are cities and towns with a distinctive Southern flavor and culture — Charleston, SC, Savannah, GA, Beaufort, NC, Asheville, NC, and her current hometown of Wilmington, NC. Other top travel spots for Sandra include Orlando (Disney World),  London, England, and any Caribbean cruise!

Sandra has been both a writer and an educator for most of her life.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Santa Clara University (CA) and a B.A. in English from West Virginia University. When not writing, she enjoys traveling, photography, golf, checking out new restaurants, hanging out at the beach, and spending time with her family.

Website: www.southern-traveller.com  |  IFWTWA Profile

Christine is a career journalist, with 40+ years devoted to extensive reporting, marketing and public relations for the arts, education, healthcare, travel and tourism.  She is an avid fruit and vegetable grower and recycler.  This New Jersey native is a long-time Georgia resident, 1970 graduate of School of Journalism University of Missouri Broad world view; passionate for people, their places, and the ways they can celebrate food, the land, fashion, labor and leisure pursuits. Focused career-wise on travel destination feature writing, including extensive restaurant and culinary commentary. Blog for TravelingMom.com, consortium of niche voices about travel. Matriarch of a big blended family: married 34 years, merging the lives of six children into adulthood. Christine loves to hike, read, practice yoga, visit museums and attend the theater and concert halls with choirs and symphonies.

Member:  International Food, Wine Travel Writers Association and North American Travel Journalists Association

Website: www.TibbettsTravel.com |  IFWTWA Profile

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

Liz Palmer is a wine and travel writer and currently writes monthly wine columns on news and trends for Credit Notes, GAM on Yachting and MetroActive, as well as monthly wine articles for HEART Business Journal for Women®, Toronto Waterfront Magazine and is an International Correspondent for China Wine News. She tastes thousands of wines annually at various international events.

Her memberships include: Society of Wine Educators; Writers Net; Wine Writers Networ; Immedia; TravelWritersCom; PWAC; International Sommelier Guild; Women in International Trade; The French Wine Society; The Center for Wine Origins;The American Media Photographers, Inc. and most recently been accepted into the Circle of Wine Writers (UK).

Ms. Palmer is in the process of writing a book entitled: “Unique Boutique Champagne Houses®” and designing a travel app entitled “Top Champagne Bars Around The World®”.

Website: http://lizpalmer.wordpress.com

Gerit Quealy is a journalist, author, and editor with extensive experience in the areas of wellness, travel, and lifestyle. As such she  has served as a writer /editor on diverse projects such a Woman’s Day Special Interest Publications specifically for Halloween and Holiday Baking, the many applications of herbs for Country Living, and restaurant reviews for Modern Bride and Metro, among others. In the course of her career, she has conducted countless interviews on subjects as varied as the history of salt to the scarcity of gluten-free sandwiches. She is currently working on a book about spices.

Gerit Quealy is a journalist with extensive experience in the lifestyle arena, including Woman’s Day SIPs: Halloween & Holiday Baking, herbology for Country Living, restaurant reviews for Modern Bride and Metro, among others.

Website: http://style.lifegoesstrong.com/gerit-quealy

Patricia Mack is Gayot.com’s regional editor for Greater New York Metro/Eastern Canada, supervising 6 writers covering restaurants and travel.  Mack is also the New Jersey restaurant reviewer and an at-large travel writer for Gayot.

Mack writes restaurant reviews and columns for N.J. Countryside, an upscale regional magazine. She has also written for Food Arts and Prevention magazines.

In St. Petersburg, Fl., Mack is senior editor for Seaside Publishing publisher of three of her 6 books. She has served as Region I director for the Association of Food Journalists and also a member of the International Food, Travel & Wine and Writers Association. She is a regional panelist on the Restaurant Awards Committee for the James Beard Foundation Mid-Atlantic States.

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A dedicated traveler and foodie, Lillian Africano has wandered the globe, feasted under a Bedouin tent in Morocco, savored the delicacies of the south of France and thoroughly enjoyed the hearty street fare of Singapore.  As Lead New York blogger for AOL’s TripVine, she offered tips on how to dine well on any budget and scoured the city for the best pizza, the best burgers — the best of everything.

She is past president of the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association and President-Elect of  the Society of American Travel Writers.

Lillian is also the author of 16 books, including several mass market best-sellers (under a pseudonym). She has co-authored New York and New Jersey guidebooks (Globe Pequot) with Nina Africano and contributed hundreds of articles to major magazines, newspapers and online ‘zines. She writes about food and travel on her own site, about spas for SpaReviewMag.com, where she is also Editor-in-Chief. She is Senior Edit Editor at Elegant Accents magazine, where she writes regularly about travel, food and wine.

Website: www.lillianafricano.com | IFWTWA Profile

Julie McElroy is a food, wine, and travel writer and the founder of The Travel Beat, where she writes about her food and travel experiences. The search for trendy restaurants or hole in the wall treasures comes from  growing up in Chicago, one of the restaurant capitals of the world. Julie loves trying new menu items and food products from all over the world.  She  has published numerous articles on food related topics, including restaurant reviews and local flavor.

Websites:  http://TheTravelBeat.com & Inspired to Write | IFWTWA Profile

Carol Malin is a professional writer and editor. During her 30-year career she has written and edited material for advertising, books, magazines, newspapers and international corporations. Her areas of experience extend to entertainment, medical, and sports genres. Recently she has begun writing food and wine articles. She resides in Temecula, Southern California’s wine country.

Paul Bissett is a raconteur and gourmand, who hosts numerous dinners and whisky tasting events.  He has traveled the world, living and working in America, Australia, England, Gibraltar, Saudi Arabia, Scotland and Taiwan, and has also visited a further 35 countries, many a number of times. These travels have allowed him to savor a number of different cultures and their cuisines.

Paul is the writer of a whisky newsletter, mainly featuring single malt scotch, which is read in eight different countries.  He is also the editor of a Scottish newsletter.  Paul organizes and leads hiking holidays (upscale, no camping) in Scotland, with emphasis on whisky and food.

Website: http://www.scot-talks.com  |  Scot Talks on Facebook