Amy gigi alexander

[...] in literary travel writing. To begin, I should explain two things. First, that I am a travel writer myself, and secondly, that I never had any intention of being one. Originally I had an [...]

[...] we can experience places in new ways. So while gender defines some of the parameters of what a travel writer writes, it does not define what a reader reads. I think of my writing as feminist travel [...]

[...] series on women in the arts who are influencers. Here, she interviews me for Les Femmes Folles,  an organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in [...]

[...] Devi Lockwood asked me to write a guest post for her blog, One Bike One Year. Her request was accompanied by [...]

[...] left a story that we can still find– left it in form of poems, letters, diaries, or oral storytelling that was recorded much later. One of the earliest examples of travel writing is the [...]

Some years ago, when I began a lengthy journey around the world, I found myself in the Panama jungle, living in a tiny community of Ngabe people. I c [...]

[...] , nomadic lives, their own desires—but their storytelling stayed within their own cultural narratives, rarely leaving their hearth, unless through their own art, literature, and oral [...]

I met poetess Nicole Tong in literary group for women, and she is one the guest curators of a wonderful series on women in the arts who are influencer [...]

[...] I met poetess Nicole Tong in literary group for women, and she is one the guest curators of a wonderful series on [...]

[...] anymore. It is becoming a cross over genre: bleeding into memoir and fairy tales; creating mini manifestos on gender, politics and social ills; rubbing elbows with fiction and poetry. Travel writing [...]