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GoNOMAD Staff Writers
We think these travelers and writers are the best
around in their fields.
They bring years of expertise as travelers and researchers
to GoNOMAD.com and we’re proud to have them.
Max Hartshorne
GoNOMAD Editor and owner
Max Hartshorne has been the editor of the GoNOMAD.com travel website since 2002. Over the past decade, he has had the privilege of working with writers and publishing travel articles about nearly every country in the world.
He has also been a consistent world traveler, writing hundreds of his own travel stories and posting daily blogs from the 10 or more yearly international trips he takes around the world.
Max always tries to get to the heart of a place--asking the local cab drivers, bartenders and people on the street to tell him what's the most important news of the day. He reads the local papers, chooses the local wines, and selects the local specialty from the menu. He's a curious writer and he delves into the nature of each place, with an eye for the details with a goal of showing his readers what it's like there.
He writes a daily blog called Readuponit and is a regular guest on several radio programs sharing stories about his travels. He lives in the farming village South Deerfield in Western Massachusetts and enjoys spending a lot of time with his grandchildren.
Read the Editor's Blog: "READUPONIT" Updated Every Day.
Read Max's stories on GoNOMAD
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Kent E. St. John
GoNOMAD Senior Travel Editor
Kent has been a travel writer for decades and once ran a travel agency in Arizona. Now he makes his home in the pleasant green Ulster County, about 90 miles from NYC. He and his wife Lisa share a study and the common love of books, teaching and writing.
Kent pens a column for the Lincoln Eagle in upstate New York, and is also a correspondent for California's largest travel radio show "Around the World
Radio." Kent brings an insider’s
knowledge of the tricks of the trade to GoNOMAD and is a part-owner of the site.
Read Kent's blog "BE OUR GUEST" about the life of a travel writer, updated every day.
Follow Kent on Twitter
Read Kent's stories on GoNOMAD
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Stephen Hartshorne
Associate Editor
Steve worked for newspapers and magazines in New England for many years and served as a information officer for the New Hampshire State Senate. He updates GoNOMAD's pages, adding new info and photos, and puts up the new stories we receive every day for the site. He lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts, with his daughter Sarah and their cat Dwight D. Eisenmeower.
Steve writes a blog called Armchair Travel
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Cindy Bigras
Travel Writer
Cindy grew up in Vermont and received a B.S. from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. She studied and worked in Florence, Italy for three years. It was there that her love for all things Italian was born. She returns there as often as possible, and keeps her language skills sharp by watching Italian television daily.
Cindy is a stickler for detail and helps keep the stories on GoNOMAD free of errors and typos.
Read Cindy's Stories on GoNOMAD
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Sony Stark
Travel Writer and Photographer
After 12 years of chasing news for CBS TV in Albany, New York, Sony Stark decided to quit the 'biz' and venture out on her own. She started a traveling video production company aptly named PilotGirl Productions and freelances for corporate, not-for-profit, and television networks. She's traveled extensively throughout the world shooting documentaries in Venezuela, Brazil, South Africa, India, China, Taiwan and Japan. Her latest pursuit has her writing, shooting and editing a television show for GoNomad based on our growing pool of professional writers. Her latest acquisition, a Sony HD camera, has itself planted as a permanent fixture on her shoulder. When she's not working you'll find her scuba-diving Mauritius, skiing Big Sky or catching an independent flick at some funky art house.
Sony writes a blog for GoNOMAD called Cross That Bridge.
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Paul Shoul, Travel Writer and Photographer
Paul
is a photographer, writer and traveler based in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is the principal photographer for the Valley Advocate and Preview magazine. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, N.Y. Times People magazine, The Boston Phoenix, the Village Voice, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonwealth, The Independent and many other publications around the world.
Read Paul's Photo blog,
"Round World Photo"
Read Paul's stories on GoNOMAD
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Lisa St. John
Traveling Poet & Writer
Lisa St. John is a high school English teacher and published poet.
Her love of travel inspires her work in both occupations. Teaching since 1996, Lisa’s enthusiasm for the classroom grows every year. Her poetry can be described as imagistic and honest. Lisa teaches because she loves to, and writes because she has to. From renting houses in San Miguel de Allende to taking cruises in the Galapagos Islands, Lisa lives by Baudelaire’s idea to "Always be a poet, even in prose".
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Lauryn Axelrod
GoNOMAD Founder
Lauryn Axelrod founded
GoNOMAD in 2000. Having traveled to over 45 countries since the age of 15, Lauryn is an incurable nomad. As a writer, photographer and documentary filmmaker, her work has appeared on PBS, in the NY Times, Videomaker Magazine, Transitions Abroad, Vermont Magazine and many others.
In June 2002, Lauryn and her son embarked on the GoNOMAD Around-The-World-Alternative Adventure. They covered many countries and you can read her dispatches in our family travel section. She now lives in Northern Vermont and teaches writing classes.
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