Jen Rose Smith

Jen Rose Smith

Travel writer Jen Rose Smith covers travel, adventure, and exploration from her home in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, CNN Travel, AFAR, Rolling Stone, Condé Nast Traveler, and Outside. In addition to her work as a travel journalist, Jen is the author of five travel guidebooks to Vermont and New England, including ""Moon New England Road Trips,"" which was selected for the 2018 New England Society Book Awards. After a childhood on the Washington coast and in Cameroon’s western mountains, Jen moved to Colorado, Bolivia, Catalonia, and Cyprus, with a stopover in California to get a B.A. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley. After founding a travel-inspired bakery called The Nomadic Oven, Jen transitioned into full-time travel writing in 2014. Her favorite adventures include riding a bicycle around Western Samoa, trekking with camels through the Sinai Desert, and a hike across the Borneo highlands sustained by foraged plants and sweetened-condensed milk. Along the way, she’s reported about the child daredevils that climb Catalan human towers, Istanbul’s food detectives, and the history of travel. Her 2012 story about a midnight search for kiwi birds during a 10-day, solo hike around New Zealand's Stewart Island was chosen for "The Best Women's Travel Writing: Volume 8."

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