The Itinerants

Laurie McAndish King is an award-winning travel writer whose essays have been published in anthologies such as Venturing in Ireland, 30 Days in Italy, The Thong Also Rises, and The Kindness of Strangers. Her work has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and aired on KUSF radio. Laurie has studied medicinal plants in Argentina and Brazil, tracked lemurs through the mountains of Madagascar, fought off leeches in tropical Queensland, tracked lions on foot—without a gun—in Botswana, studied with an urban shaman, and trapped and banded raptors in the Marin Headlands.

Laurie earned her master’s degree in Internet-based education and publishes an online newsletter, Travel Writers News. She is an officer and board member of Bay Area Travel Writers, co-edited two anthologies in the Hot Flashes: sexy little stories and poems series, evangelizes for children’s financial literacy, and indulges her passions for travel and natural history as often as she possibly can.