Emma Sloley Emma Sloley started her career in her native Australia, where she was an editor at Harper's Bazaar magazine before spending 15 years in New York filing dispatches from her far-flung travels. She loves exploring, rediscovering, and writing about her three homes — Australia, Mexico, and the United States. In 2019, she published her first novel, “Disaster’s Children,” a work of literary speculative fiction set in a wealthy survivalist colony in Oregon. She is currently working on her next two novels.• 15+ years of experience writing and editing• Received scholarships from Bread Loaf Writer's Conference and the Kenyon Review Workshop• Received a MacDowell Fellowship• Her short stories and creative nonfiction have been anthologized and short-listed for prizes About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore. We reach an audience that takes 76 million round trips annually, offering valuable travel tips, ideas and inspiration, and products you need to get you to your destination — whether it’s a small town or big city, beach or lake, national park or theme park, road trip, cruise, or long-haul flight, and everything in between. Learn more about us and our editorial process