We travel to lose ourselves, to find ourselves, and sometimes just to be someone else for a while. Join seventeen authors as they take you on journeys through Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, these true tales remind us how travel nourishes our souls.
Featuring essays by Angela Acosta, Roseanna Bali, Alice M. Batzel, Juge Brigley, Neil Dabb, Rachel Lutwick-Deaner, J. Anthony Gohier, Elizabeth Jaeger, Tim Keller, K.G. Montgomery, Edmond A. Porter, Marilyn W. Richardson, Sharolyn Richards, Anne Stark, David S. Taylor, Gail Tyson, and E.B. Wheeler.
Angela Acosta, Ph.D. (she/her) is a bilingual Mexican American speculative poet and Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina. Her creative and academic work center on imagining possible worlds and preserving the cultural legacies of women writers. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention, and Utopia Award nominee. Her Rhysling nominated poetry has appeared in Heartlines Spec, Shoreline of Infinity, Apparition Lit, Radon Journal, and Space & Time. She is author of the Elgin nominated poetry collections Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Publishing, 2022) and A Belief in Cosmic Dailiness (Red Ogre Review, 2023). She has published on female life-writing, poetry, and literary personas in Persona Studies, Ámbitos Feministas, and Feminist Modernist Studies.