Lina Zeldovich

Lina Zeldovich

An immigrant from the former Soviet Union where travel abroad was forbidden, Lina Zeldovich learned English as a second language in her twenties, as an immigrant New Yorker. Since then, she shimmied with belly dancers in Turkey, cooked a zebu stew in Madagascar, fished for piranhas in the Amazon, sipped a drink made from a venomous snake in Peru—and always lived to write the story. She writes about travel, food, culture, nature, adventure, history, eco-tourism, science and sustainability. Her work appeared in AAA Traveler Worldwise, AARP, BBC, Smithsonian, NatGeo, BBC, Washington Post, Toronto Star, Atlas Obscura, AFAR, Saturday Evening Post, Sierra Club, TravelAge West and in-flight magazines. She holds several journalism awards including NATJA’s gold, silver and bronze, as well as ASJA’s Award for Covering Crisis during Covid-19. A culture shock junkie and a tree hugger, she lives in New York because she can fly nonstop to almost anywhere.

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