alsawo

About me

Growing up in a two-stoplight Midwestern town, I had no idea how vast and interesting the world was. In college, I did my best to make up for lost time, trekking to Norway to track down my great-grandparents' village, studying abroad in Niger (where I apprenticed with a Tuareg silversmith and bought myself a pet donkey), trading my Spanish class for Zulu when I learned it would lead to a free summer in South Africa, building houses in Nicaragua, and so forth I have an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and have published essays in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2008, World Hum, A Woman's World Again: True Stories of World Travel, Abroad View and Transitions Abroad, among others. I work as a writer for an educational travel company.

Travel style

I'm most intrigued by places the average person hasn't heard of (or has heard of, but would never want to visit).

Favorite books

Wickerby by Charles Siebert

My links

www.alexiswolff.com