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Meet the lovely people behind our stories
Adam Sharps
Although a British citizen, Adam has carved out a life that allows him to spend up to six months a year in Canada. Always in his spiritual home of Banff, and always in the winter so he can feed his obsession for snowboarding.
Ailsa Ross
Ailsa Ross is a Scottish journalist and illustrator living in the Canadian Rockies. She contributes to Outside online, BBC History, National Geographic Travel, and Time Out, and runs History's Women Adventurers.
Aja Hannah
Aja Hannah is a writer, traveller, and mama. Her articles have been featured nationally and internationally in publications like The Progressive, The UK’s Independent, and Hawaii Business Magazine. She’s the author of two published books and hundreds of articles. She believes in the Oxford comma, cheap flights, and a daily dose of chocolate.
Akanksha Singh
Akanksha Singh is a freelance culture journalist based in Mumbai, India. A third culture kid, travel is her first love, followed closely by coffee, jazz, gin and typing away in her tiny studio apartment.
Alison Karlene Hodgins
Alison Karlene Hodgins is a writer and editor based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her work has appeared in Fodor’s Travel, The Globe and Mail and The Huffington Post. She’s currently working on a travel memoir about grief and healing.
Allie Vandersanden
Allie Vandersanden is a freelance writer and editor from Ontario, Canada, currently living in Florence, Italy, and teaching ESL. Allie completed her undergraduate degree in English literature and pursued her post-graduate studies in creative book publishing. Her interests include travel, blogging, seeking sunny spots to lounge in and curling up with a good book and a cup of tea.
Amy Attas
Amy Attas is a writer, tree planter and hockey referee. She grew up in Pinawa, Manitoba, and earned a degree in Creative Writing from York University in Toronto before cutting ties with the idea of a permanent address. Her work has appeared at CBC Radio, Room Magazine and The Winnipeg Review. Her possessions are currently stored in Victoria, BC.
Amy Watkins
Amy Watkins, a British-born travel writer, fell in love with Canada as a teenager and moved to Vancouver in 2012. In the UK she worked as a features editor and freelance writer for ten years, writing about travel for national magazines and newspapers. Amy has travelled around the world on assignments as varied as cooking with celebrity chefs in the Caribbean to polar bear watching in the Arctic. She now writes about travel, food and West Coast life for a variety of publications.
Anja Jerkovic
Anja is a freelance writer and poet living in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She’s a strong member of team WOW, is happy to live a dog’s life from time to time and is on a mission to use words to heal, not to hurt.
Anthony Brook
Anthony Brook has somehow managed to realize that elusive dream of living and working in the Canadian Rockies. Based in Canmore, he can usually be found on a mountain, on a river or on the road between the two.
Ashlea Wheeler
Ashlea Wheeler is the creator of A Globe Well Travelled, a travel blog which inspires people to live an adventurous and sustainable lifestyle. As an excitable Australian who loves photography and exploring the world, she’s also known for being super-organised, having a stationery addiction and being a tad obsessed with maps.
Ashley Giordano
Ashley Giordano covers overland travel with a focus on women’s adventure stories and automotive features. Her work has been featured in Tread, Volta, Expedition Portal and Overland Journal. Ashley’s passion for exploring the world and sharing travel stories originated from a 48,000-km overland journey she completed with her husband Richard, from Canada to Argentina in their well-loved but antiquated Toyota pickup. When she isn’t busy freelancing, you can often find Ashley hiking in the Canadian Rockies.
Aubree Sorteberg
I am a bilingual social entrepreneur who lives and works in Cuenca, Ecuador. My mission is to empower women using the tools of yoga, ayurveda, and mindfulness. I lead retreats, trainings, and workshops in person and on-line. I love to travel on my motorcycle because it gives me a new perspective on adventure.
Béatrice
Béatrice grew up in Montreal's suburbs, but her thirst for adventure pushed her to leave the family home at just 16, to move to the big city. She is slightly (very) obsessed with Australia, but wouldn't say no to any destination, especially if white sand beaches are involved. She drinks a little too much coffee, loves to cook, and spends her summers in music festivals.
Bre Mirynech
Bre is an outdoor lover, adventure enthusiast, hiker, backpacker, ACMG apprentice hiking guide, traveller, rock climber, ice climber, Instagrammer and blogger who lives in Banff. Visit her blog, averageadventurer.ca or follow her on Instagram to keep up.
Carrie Hoffman
Carrie is a former hostel manager, yoga teacher, writer and photographer currently vagabonding around Asia with her husband. Besides travel and yoga, her other obsessions include coffee, vegan food and playing with every street dog she encounters.
Chelsea Lyndon
Chelsea is an outgoing Australian girl currently living and working in Toronto, Canada. She's crazy for the spontaneity of life and travels as much as possible to create new memories. She enjoys writing, hiking and exploring hidden areas in her spare time.
Cheryl Rodewig
Cheryl Rodewig got her start in journalism shadowing soldiers on field training, where she learned the value of quick camera reflexes. Now, she's a marketer, speaker and award-winning feature writer, who's sold all her stuff to focus on exploring a little more of the world. Read about her latest getaway on her website.
Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin
Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin is a journalist and editor based in Montréal. After her first major solo hike—900 miles across Europe—gave her the confidence to travel, her obsessions with technology, politics and human dynamics have led her non-stop from the West Bank to Juarez in search of new stories. Keep exploring!
Christie Jones
Christie is a Vancouver Island-born-and-raised adventure seeker. She has travelled to 16 countries mostly around Europe, but still loves to call Canada home. Her favourite parts about travelling, locally and worldwide, are finding farm-to-table foodie spots, doing a classic walking tour to soak up the history and hearing people’s stories. When she’s not travelling, you can find her writing, working for a social media agency, hiking or doing yoga or some sub-par baking.
Christine Chatigny
Chris was born in Montreal and deeply loves her hometown, but equally hates winter. She used her undergraduate studies as an excuse to travel and has never looked back. After living in Ecuador and Puerto Rico, and stepping foot in more than 15 countries, she settled down (or not) in Cordóba, Argentina, with Chula and Mora, two stray dogs she adopted along the way.
Colleen Seto
A longtime writer, editor and traveller, Colleen Seto has been wordsmithing for regional, national and international publications and websites for years. She’s passed her passion for travel onto her two kiddos, whom she often has in tow when exploring the globe. Whether travelling across continents or down the road, she’s always looking for the extraordinary stories behind ordinary people and places.
Crystal Wood
Raised in Winnipeg, Crystal now lives in the comparatively balmy city of Toronto. She writes for television, theatre and online, and her writing has appeared in InBetween and Oxygen magazines as well as the Winnipeg Free Press. When she’s not writing, she loves to plan budget-friendly travel adventures. Next stop on her list: Argentina.
Danielle Bossio
Danielle is an artist, wildlife admirer, snowboarder, and cocktail snob currently residing in the Yukon. Her first solo travel experience was to New Zealand for a semester abroad and was blown away by the rich culture and mountainous landscapes. Thereafter, Danielle knew she needed to explore more of this magnificent world, and became rather engrossed by this aspiration. Her most treasured item to travel with is a journal. She loves a good thunderstorm, sharing and listening to stories, being hypnotized by a campfire, and cuddling up to watch a distressing film. Since 2012, she’s lived in over 13 cities and towns with the ambition to add more to that list.
Danielle Owen
Danielle is a full-time traveller and freelance travel writer. She’s been on-the-move since 2015 from Albania to Zambia (and 65+ others in between). Her advanced algorithm evaluates countries based on a thorough analysis of their wine, hot sauce, local friendliness and how hard she happy-cries at their nature.
Dominik Kropacek & Josefine Kraemer
Dominik and Josefine (Red White Adventures) are an international travel couple who work online as content creators while exploring the world as digital nomads. They first met in a hostel room in Australia back in 2016 and have since then travelled to and lived in multiple countries around the world such as New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. Dominik and Josefine’s biggest goal is to help inspire aspiring nomads to take the leap and live the life that they truly desire where experiences and connections are valued higher than possessions.
Eleanor Isdale
Eleanor is from Australia and has been travelling around Canada for the past two years. She has spent her time living on both coasts of Canada and has seen much in between, photographing everything she can while blogging about her adventures.
Emily Clements
Emily Clements is an Ontario-based writer with a passion for natural spaces. She chases beauty—first to experience, and then to write about. Her editorial work has appeared in Her Campus and in the Hostels International Magazine.
Eric Bomhof
Eric Bomhof is a travel filmmaker, photographer and writer from Abbotsford, Canada. In February 2021, he took a year off with his wife to travel South America. Two years later, they are still travelling and showing others how they can do the same through their YouTube channel (Eric and Sarah), travel guides and publications such as this one. Eric loves trying new things, learning about different cultures, and outdoor activities so combining all three into a digital nomad job is his dream come true!
Erin
Being born and raised in Vancouver, BC (a rarity around these parts!), my first travel experiences were all long road trips with the fam. We would drive through the Rockies to visit family in Alberta, spend weeks camping down in Oregon and California, explore the interior of BC and all the islands off the coast. They're some of my favorite memories and since then the travel spark has been in me full-force. My first overseas adventure was a school trip to the Greek Islands in Gr. 10 - and I've never looked back.
Erin Pehlivan
Erin Pehlivan is a writer and editor based in Toronto. She is the founding editor of Return Trip, an independent magazine exploring how travel makes us feel, which has been featured in Monocle and She Does the City. To learn more, follow @returntripmag on Instagram.
Farwa Fashori
Farwa Farshori is a storyteller always looking for her next adventure. Using her experiences as a 5-foot South Asian, she writes about food, pop culture, travel and lifestyle as she navigates the world around her.
Fiona Tapp
Fiona Tapp is a freelance travel and parenting writer. Her work has been featured by National Geographic, The Washington Post, The New York Post, HuffPost, Brides and Fodor's among many others. She has travelled to over 20 countries on five continents and loves writing about her adventures. You can follow her on Instagram or Twitter.
Fionn Pooler
Fionn Pooler is a freelance writer and former coffee professional based in Southeast Michigan. He writes about coffee, culture and sustainability for a variety of publications and his own website, The Pourover.
Gabby Peyton
Gabby Peyton is a freelance food and travel writer based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She has visited almost 20 countries (including three seasons working on archeological digs in Turkey) and books travel around restaurant reservations. Gabby writes about travelling to eat and culinary history on her blog The Food Girl in Town.
Gaël
Gaël loves coffee, brunch, playlists, mornings, sunrises, photo collage, roadtrips, the world wild web, technological stuff, airplanes, boats, libraries, Wired magazine, yoga, pandas, climbing, confetti, but mostly, and above it all, travelling. Having grown up in Guinée and Zambia, Africa holds a special place in her heart.
Gin Sexsmith
Gin Sexsmith is an Indigenous writer and musician who flits between Deseronto and Toronto, Ontario. Her debut novel In the Hands of Men is set to be released later this fall, with a non-fiction mixed media project on Indigenous imposter-syndrome titled MUTT coming out Spring 2023. When not writing she can be found playing guitar, studying Kanyen'kéha and Spanish, or giving her cats too many treats.
Ginni Seehagel
Ginni Seehagel is a visual artist and writer whose work is rooted in observation and mindfulness. She believes that every minute experience has the potential to bring joy. She lives on the west coast of Canada where she spends her time writing and creating for clients, and draws comparisons between the human and the natural.
Gisela
Born in Buenos Aires, and loving life in Montreal since 2001, I am crazy about words, paintings, stages, urban life, good coffee and a few dead artists.
Heather Kang
Heather Kang is the content manager for HI Canada. Her body lives in Ontario while her heart lives on the West Coast. She has travelled to over 30 countries and Canada is still her favourite. Next on her bucket list are the southern parts of South America and the northern parts of North America.
HI Canada
Oh hey, that's us! HI Canada is home to more than 50 hostels from coast to coast. We like trees, rocks, mountains, lakes, festivals, beer, coffee and that feeling you get when you book a plane ticket.
India Amos
India Amos is a writer and reporter based in Miami, Florida. She has travelled and lived throughout Appalachia and Latin America.
Jackie Dives
Jackie Dives explores themes of identity and womanhood through the medium of digital and analog photography. Inspired by photographers Nan Goldin, Francesca Woodman and Mary Ellen Mark, Dives's photographs are diaristic, vulnerable and sometimes confrontational. Her work has been published in Canadian Geographic, The Tyee, VICE, The Globe and Mail and Maclean's.
Jamie Sterling
Jamie Sterling is the community manager at HI Canada. Having spent the better part of her adult life living, working and travelling abroad as a student, a teacher and a digital nomad, she’s passionate about intercultural experiences and genuinely believes that travel can change the world. Guided by her budget style, she’ll go anywhere if there’s a cheap flight.
Janet Mowat
Janet Mowat is a writer and travel guide based in Calgary, Alberta. She grew up in Winnipeg and earned an MA in classics at the University of Toronto. Done with academia, Janet has since devoted herself to adventure and sharing her love of Canada, leading tours of this incredible country from coast to coast.
Jasmine Williams
Jasmine Williams is an award-winning writer, editor and content and social media consultant based in Toronto, Ontario. She writes about entrepreneurship, career development, and productivity to help young professionals live their best lives.
Jen Mallia
Jen Mallia is a writer with a travelling problem...or is it the other way around? Whether it is uncovering the hidden delights of an out-of-the-way location, or sharing tips about well known tourist haunts, Jen is always happy to find the best ways to experience a place. No matter where her travels take her, she is always happy to come home to Alberta!
Jenna Thompson
Jenna Thompson is an educator working in various capacities, including as an associate high school college consultant. Her home base lies in the Andean region of Ecuador. When not guiding students, exploring Ecuador, or riding her bike, Jenna enjoys swapping travel stories with friends and planning her next adventure.
Jessie O'Neill
Jessie grew up in a rural community in Northern British Columbia. Currently, she lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, and has fallen in love with the city and its energy. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, short story collections, playing music, cooking, travelling, craft beers, Jeopardy! reruns and taking in live shows.
Jonathan Saquicili
Jonathan Saquicili is a product manager and digital strategist based in Latin America. Travelling through 26 countries opened his mind to the possibilities outside of the rat race. When travelling or on his free time, he can be found in meditation in a dance studio or museum, collecting succulents, or doing pottery.
Julia Smit
Julia is a freelance writer based out of Montana, US. If she isn't hiking in the mountains or crawling in a cave, she's probably scouring Skyscanner, hunting down flight deals for the next adventure.
Kaitlyn McInnis
Kaitlyn McInnis is a freelance travel and lifestyle writer with bylines in Travel + Leisure, MAXIM, enRoute by Air Canada, Tatler Asia and other leading publications across the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. Typically an avid traveller, she is currently hunkering down between her apartment in Montreal and her cabin in rural Quebec.
Karen Green
Karen Green is a freelance writer based in southwestern Ontario. Her work has appeared in in print and online, and she's the author of two books for young readers. She has travelled to some pretty far-flung corners of the world, but most days she can be found in her sunroom, reading, writing and drinking coffee.
Keith O'Halloran & Dev Labrie
Keith and Dev are travel filmmakers that capture their adventures on YouTube as they travel the world. Based in Kingston, Ontario, when they are home, they have a deep love for nature and the outdoors, and love immersing themselves in new cultures and environments around the globe. They love learning and sharing their passions and love for the world with others.
Kellie Paxian
Kellie Paxian is currently chasing wanderlust and wifi around the globe as a travel content creator and bonafide hostel hopper. From the top of mountains to the bottom of the ocean, there is no bucket list item that Kellie won’t conquer. Follow her adventures on Instagram at @kelliepaxian.
Kristen Dobbin
Kristen is a writer and photographer based in Toronto. Holding dual citizenship in Canada and Estonia, she has lived in Estonia, Spain and France. For her master's research in anthropology, Kristen explored Sápmi (arctic Scandinavia) on a solo fieldwork trip. As an artist with the Mikw Chiyâm program, Kristen travels annually to northern Quebec to teach photography and work with Cree youth.
Laura Oxley
Laura was born & raised in Montreal, but she has called the sandy beaches of Australia, magical Middle Earth and the land of tea and crumpets home over the last ten years. She is a keen travel storyteller and always up for a spontaneous adventure.
Lauren Bennett
A born-and-bred Brummy, and almost-Parisian, Lauren is calling Toronto home for now. Find her in any coffee shop with cute decor, at the art gallery or hibernating with a book during winter. Come summer, she loves to go and explore new places. Writing about travel and culture is her favourite; keep up with her musings on her website.
Leah Ruehlicke
Leah lives in a tiny apartment downtown Toronto with bad water pressure and an amazing book collection. She’s a producer by day, a writer by night and a traveller in between. An avid user of the semi-colon and fan of the acoustic version, Leah spends her spare time eating potato chips. See more from her on Instagram or her personal blog.
Lida Tunesi
Lida was born and raised in Minnesota and proudly holds dual citizenship with Canada. Though she devoted her college years to studying chemistry she now mostly finds herself making a living as a writer, and imagines her third grade self would say "told you so." Check out some of her articles on deep-sea exploration, wearable brain scanners and the wonderful chemical elements on her blog.
Lucy Milburn
Lucy Milburn is a British freelance journalist and communications professional who recently took a break from real-life to backpack around the world. Catch her writing about society, culture, people and everything in between.
Lydia Klemensowicz
Née et élevée à Toronto, au Canada, Lydia peut dire qu’elle se sent chez elle à bien des endroits dans le monde. Elle a vécu en Irlande, en Bosnie-Herzégovine et en Tanzanie. Depuis janvier 2019, cette nomade numérique se promène à travers l’Asie. On la trouve généralement en train d’écrire son dernier récit de voyage, une bonne tasse de café à la main.
Mariah Collins
Mariah Collins is a Vancouver-based writer, social media manager and travel enthusiast. In early 2020, she quit her full-time job to explore Australia and New Zealand and has been on the hunt for adventure ever since. Interests include obsessively checking YVR Deals and the explore page of google flights, and more recently, going for really, REALLY long walks while she waits for borders to open back up.
Mariana Zapata
Mariana Zapata is a Colombian-American travel writer. She has lived and worked around the world, focusing on sustainable tourism. She has worked with TripAdvisor, Atlas Obscura, Fodor's and more. You can usually find her at street food stands or falling victim to her nonexistent sense of direction.
Marie
Marie likes to learn foreign words, cook with friends, dance, and plan her next road trip. You can see her riding her bike or running along the streets of Montréal, drawing in a park or wandering around flea markets. When she grows up, she wants to be a mermaid.
Meghan Wilson-Smith
Meghan Wilson-Smith is a Toronto-based writer and editor. Her work has appeared in several publications, including The Globe and Mail, science and travel magazines and municipal newspapers. When not busy with her jobs as both a corporate communications professional and mother of one amazing young son, she is writing about travel, culture and parenting.
Melissa Giroux
Melissa Giroux is originally from Quebec, Canada. She has been travelling and living abroad since June 2014. After living in Australia and the United Kingdom, she decided to move to Asia. She is now living her best life in Bali. Follow her adventures on A Broken Backpack.
Michael Funk
Michael is the co-founder of a travel backpack company, an avid adventurer and a ceaseless global wanderer. His love of travelling blossomed with a five-month solo trip around Southeast Asia and has continued ever since with trips across Asia, the Americas and Europe. When he’s not travelling abroad, you can find him exploring the wonders of B.C. or penning rambling anecdotes about his adventures in one of Vancouver’s cafes.
Michelle da Silva
Born in Vancouver, Michelle quit her job to backpack across Europe for three months alone. It turned out to be one of the most rewarding experiences of her life, and now she travels as often as she can. Michelle is currently based in Toronto, where she works as a journalist and runs her cat’s Instagram account.
Mikaela Broscoe
Mikaela Broscoe is a student and writer who loves all things travel, books and writing. Though she grew up in the Vancouver area, she has had the privilege of living in three different countries and travelling to many more. She is currently taking her Masters in Global Affairs in hopes of making travel an even bigger part of her career. A coastal girl at heart, she is looking to taking on her next adventure living in Charlottetown and exploring all the east coast has to offer!
Molly Gastle
Born and raised in the countryside of Ontario, Molly has always had a passion for adventure and the world around her. She has been fortunate enough to explore many countries, from backpacking Europe to road tripping the US, and is always searching for her next destination. Travel, working in hostels, writing and theatre work are some of the most rewarding aspects of her life.
Natasha Amar
Natasha is an Indian travel blogger and writer telling stories about travel, culture, food, mental health and personalities for Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Waldorf Astoria Magazine, SilverKris, Forbes Travel Guide, Departures, Go Overseas and others. When not chasing a good story, she can be found chasing trails somewhere around the world. More of her work can be found on her blog TheBohoChica.com.
Nomad Junkies
The two Montrealers Safia and Emilie launched the online magazine Nomad Junkies back in January 2014 to talk about their nomadic lifestyle and inspire people to travel. They've now explored more than 76 countries (and that number keeps growing!).
Pepper Cunningham
Pepper Cunningham (she/her) is a writer and editor based in the mountains of Southern Ecuador. She is the Translation Editor at MAYDAY Magazine. Her poetry and prose appear in Split Lip, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere. She is the author of “Hope Is The Thing With Teeth” (Bottlecap Press, 2023). When she’s not planning her next big travel adventure, she’s usually by the river looking for butterflies.
Rowan Flood
Rowan Flood is a Toronto-based freelance writer and journalism student with bylines in The Discourse, CanCulture, and The Eyeopener. She focuses on longform feature writing and loves to write people centred stories. Her love of travel and meeting new people guides much of her writing.
Ruby Irene Pratka
Ruby Irene Pratka is a Montreal-based freelance writer and editor and long-time HI member who enjoys combining writing and travel. Her work has been published in English and French in Vice Québec, HuffPost Québec, Ricochet, Xtra, Shareable, Canadaland and the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, among other websites and magazines. She also speaks Russian and some Haitian Creole. Originally from the US, she has been living the expat life since 2006. She has lived in eight countries and four different Canadian provinces, but keeps coming back to the delights of Quebec City.
Samantha Newbery
Samantha is an aspiring adventurer currently living in Vancouver, BC, and loving every minute of it! She loves dogs, thrift shopping and getting out in nature.
Sandy Allen
Sandy's motto is "life is meant to be experienced." You can find her embracing life, grabbing on to all the experiences she can and taking her readers along for the ride over at Canadian Blog House. Sandy was named one of CISION’s "Seven Canada 150 Projects and Influencers You Should Follow on Twitter" in 2017, as well as one of the "Top 25 Canadian Social Media Influencers" by IZEA. She is an occasional contributor to both the Ottawa Tourism website, and the Outaouais Tourism blog.
Sara Lapalus
Sara is a full time nurse on a constant quest for adventure. Whenever she’s not working at the hospital you’ll find her wandering in the nature Quebec has to offer. She is usually hiking mountains trails, skiing and snowshoeing in 40 cm of snow or drinking bio-dynamic wine with her friends. Her love for nature and travels came from a young age and her bucket-list journey is increasing with every passing year!
Sarah Bence
Sarah Bence is a travel writer based in Michigan with previous stints living in the UK and France. She has written for World Nomads, Unearth Women, Barista Magazine, HI USA and more. She writes about travelling with chronic illness on her blog, Endless Distances.
Sarah Bomhof
Sarah Bomhof is a travel filmmaker, photographer and writer from Abbotsford, Canada. In February 2021, she quit her job working at a high school to travel South America for a year with her husband. Two years later, they are still travelling and showing others how they can do the same through their YouTube channel (Eric and Sarah), travel guides and publications such as this one. Sarah loves all things slow travel, outdoor activities, and people, so combining all three into a digital nomad job is her dream come true!
Sarah Hewitt
Sarah Hewitt is a Toronto-based writer with a passion for food and travel. Her work has appeared on Food Network Canada, the Cooking Channel and Gusto Worldwide Media and she has also researched a number of best-selling cookbooks. She has a masters degree in Communication and Culture and loves travelling the world in her spare time—she's at 24 countries and counting!
Sarah Micho
Sarah Micho is a Black Canadian journalist, writer and creative storyteller. Originally from Montreal, she grew up living in different communities across both Eastern and Western Canada. In September 2021 she relocated to Paris, France to pursue a creative life filled with fashion, writing and art. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Neighbourhood Magazine, The Globe and Mail, LuxuryFacts, and others.
Shelby Monita
Shelby Monita is a freelance writer living in Toronto. Her work has been published in Broken Pencil, She Does the City and The Punk Site, to name a few.
Sia Shete
Sia Shete is a 19 year old "chaotic" poet, author, offbeat traveler and mood photographer based in Toronto. Her debut novel "In the Gray" will be launching North America-wide in July 2024. Sia is currently also pursuing Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Sinead Mulhern
Sinead Mulhern is a Canadian travel writer and editor based in the Andean city of Cuenca, Ecuador. In early 2018, she quit her job to freelance full-time while exploring South America. When not writing, she's usually hiking mountain trails, learning salsa, running by the river beside her home, or exploring Cuenca's UNESCO-designated downtown. Her work has appeared in The Toronto Star, Travel Curator, enRoute, FASHION, Explore, and others.
Sky Regina
Sky works as a freelance editor and writer at Writer's Block Solutions, and her fiction is represented by Lucy Hamilburg at The Hamilburg Agency. When not hunched over her laptop, she can be found burying her nose in campy horror novels with her terrier pup by her side, devising believable ways to worm her way out of social commitments, or listening to music that stokes nostalgia.
Stephanie Menard
Stephanie is a Canadian teacher who recently relocated to Prague after eight years of living in Toronto. She loves exploring new places, being outside in nature and meeting fellow travellers. She has lived in four countries and travelled to thirty-two so far.
Tanya Koob
Tanya Koob is an adventurer, mom and blogger from Calgary. No matter the season, she and her family are outside and enjoying their beautiful backyard in the Canadian Rockies. Follow her family’s adventures at rockiesfamilyadventures.com or on Facebook and Instagram.
Tom Smith
Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Tom has picked up passport stamps everywhere from Albania to Uruguay and plenty of places in between. In June 2018, he quit his job, sold all his junk, and bought a one-way ticket to Europe to embark on a working holiday.
Vanessa Chiasson
Vanessa Chiasson is an Ottawa-based freelance writer with bylines in Buzzfeed, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, Globe and Mail, Travel Awaits, and more. Her blog, TurnipseedTravel.com, focuses on cozy travel experiences and was named one of the world’s 100 most influential travel blogs by the Obama White House in 2014.
Vanessa Choot
Vanessa is the blogger behind Modern Mix Travel. In 2018, Vanessa took a year off from her marketing career to travel the world. Over 50 countries later, she's still happy and excited to share her travel tips and stories from her global adventures. Both at home in Vancouver and abroad, you'll find her exploring a neighbourhood on foot or seeking inspiration at a trendy cafe, continually trying to figure out: what exactly do the locals do here?
Victoria Walton
Victoria Walton was born and raised on Canada's East Coast and still calls Halifax, Nova Scotia home. When not working as a journalist and filmmaker, she can be found taking photos of her morning coffee, petting cats and planning trips she can't afford.