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“The Land of T.M.I.” by A.E. Baer published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2012 by Andrew Baer.
“Six Syllables” by Angie Chuang first appeared in The Asian American Literary Review Special Issue, September 2011. Copyright © 2012 by Angie Chuang.
“Catalina” by Matthew Gavin Frank first appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, July 2009. Published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2009 by Matthew Gavin Frank.
“Caribbean Two-Step” by Conner Gorry published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2012 by Connor Gorry.
“Notes on My Father” by Kate McCahill published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2012 by Kate McCahill.
“Where Things Happen” by Pat Ryan published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2012 by Pat Ryan.
“Negrita” by Richard Sterling published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2012 by Richard Sterling.
“What the Trees Try to Tell Us We Are” by Jessica Wilson published with permission from the author. Copyright © 2012 by Jessica Wilson.
About the Editors
James O’Reilly, publisher of Travelers’ Tales, was born in Oxford, England, and raised in San Francisco. He’s visited fifty countries and lived in four, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, rafting the Zambezi, and hanging out with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels whenever he can with his wife and their three daughters. They live in Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games, books, and apps for children at Birdcage Press (birdcagepress.com).
Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers’ Tales, has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the Arctic to equatorial rainforests, the Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the 1980s he co-authored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O’Reilly, and since 1985 has written a syndicated column, “World Travel Watch” (WorldTravelWatch.com). Habegger regularly teaches travel writing at workshops and writers’ conferences, is a principal of the Prose Doctors (prosedoctors.com), and editor-in-chief of Triporati.com, a destination discovery site. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.
Sean O’Reilly is editor-at-large for Travelers’ Tales. He is a former seminarian, stockbroker, and prison instructor who lives in Virginia with his wife and their six children. He’s had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of How to Manage Your DICK: Redirect Sexual Energy and Discover Your More Spiritually Enlightened, Evolved Self (dickmanagement.com). His travels of late have taken him through China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific; his most recent non-travel project is redbrazil.com, a bookselling site.