Katherine parker-magyar

I am a freelance writer covering travel, lifestyle, literature, & culture. My work has appeared in Architectural Digest, Departures, TripSavvy, Prefered Travel Magazine, Forbes, The Week, Business Insider, TripSavvy, The Daily Beast, World Travel Magazine, Tasting Table, The U.S. Traveler’s League, Elite Daily, Popsugar, Brit + Co, Go Overseas, Quest Magazine, and the Recorder Newspapers, where I began my career as a reporter. I earned my master’s degree with honors in literature from the New School.

I love to travel because I love meeting new people and experiencing different cultures. And I blame my parents for my insatiable wanderlust—they took me to the Arctic Circle when I was 14 months old. Since then, I’ve traveled to 7 continents, 86 countries, and all 50 states, and studied abroad in London and Osaka.

I’m a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, the Adventure Travel Association, the Impact Travel Alliance, and the Transformational Travel Council, a collective dedicated to the life-changing (and life-enhancing) effects of travel. I am a monthly co-host of the TripCast360 podcast and have been interviewed about my travels in magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and radio shows across the globe. I’ve appeared as a guest speaker at media conferences and tourism events and presented lectures on travel writing for the College Media Association. My work has been translated into French, Spanish, Arabic, and Mandarin, and profiled in Condé Nast Traveler, Huffington Post, Forbes, Le Diplomate Tunisien, and Economist Maghreb.

In my career as a travel writer, I’ve driven husky sleighs through Arctic forests in Finnish Lapland and sailed the Rio Negro to the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. I’ve practiced yoga with goats in the Swiss Alps and chased Alaskan King Salmon off the shores of Prince of Wales Island. I’ve jumped into black holes in Belize and trekked across the most active volcanic valleys in the Caribbean. I’ve gone hot-air ballooning above the Nevada desert and tracked rhinos in the Maasai Mara. And, most recently, I hiked to the highest lodges in the world in Peru and tracked tigers in the jungles of Nepal.

While I’m always eager for new adventures, my most meaningful experiences are the moments I’ve shared with the strangers turned friends I’ve met along the way. Travel, I’ve learned, is other people. I truly believe that travel is love and, in the words of Mark Twain, that it’s fatal for hatred, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

I’m thrilled to be working in an industry that is a force for good in the world.