Maggie Shipstead Maggie Shipstead is a best-selling and prize-winning novelist, essayist, and travel writer. In nearly a decade of travel writing, she has covered a wide range of destinations and topics ranging from cities to wilderness, tropics to polar regions, and luxury hotels to tents. She has a particular interest in adventure travel and wildlife and is an experienced horseback rider.• New York Times best-selling author of three novels and one short story collection• Shortlisted for the Booker Prize• Won the Dylan Thomas Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize for first fiction• Recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts• Included in “Best American Short Stories” and “Best American Sports Writing”• Three-time finalist for a National Magazine Award• Graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop 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