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AWARDS
Solas Award for Best Travel Writing 2011— Gold for Funny Travel Story Category
Day Use Only

Solas Award for Best Travel Writing 2010— Bronze for Travel and Shopping
Traveling Companions

Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing 2009— Silver for Travel and Shopping Category
Bellissima

MAGAZINE FEATURES
Profile of Milan illustrator Marco Ventura in Communication Arts magazine
Marco Ventura

Profile of Italian illustrators Anna and Elena Balbusso in Communication Arts magazine
Anna + Elena Balbusso

STORIES: PRINT and ONLINE
In the San Francisco Chronicle and sfgate.com
“Tourist Italian? No, thank you.”

ANTHOLOGIES
30 Days in Italy and
The Best Travel Writing 2007
Only Fish

The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2006
Turquoise Dreams

ONLINE SERIES
A twelve-part adventure in fluency at italian.about.com
Learning To Speak Italian in Italy

TRAVEL GUIDES
Article on California’s state and national parks
2011 Travel Guide to California

RADIO
KQED Radio Perspectives
Giving Made Simple

Sicily

Follow our journey from Palermo along the north coast to Segesta and Trapani, then to Selinunte and Agrigento. We headed into the mountains to Longi and then to Gangi for Palm Sunday. Afterwards we headed back to the sea and the southeast coast to Siracusa and nearby Modica. For our final run at Easter, we left the warmth of the coast for Good Friday and Easter in Enna.



Townsend 11 Anthologies

I am honored to be a member of Townsend 11, a collective of award-winning writers, who have been meeting for seven years in a brick warehouse in San Francisco. We have now published three volumes of our stories as e-books.

If you like the adventures published in Travelers’ Tales, Lonely Planet, and other creative anthologies, you’ll enjoy our bundle of thought-provoking stories. Townsend 11 aims to delight, entertain, amuse, and inspire readers of all ages.

Townsend 11 Anthologies

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