Kirsten Koza: Kirsten Koza is the author of Lost in Moscow: a brat in the USSR, a humorist, journalist, adventurer, and expedition organizer. She’s a contributor to Travelers’ Tales anthologies and her stories “Chasing Tornadoes” and “Mare’s Milk, Mountain Bikes, Meteors & Mammaries; a nipply night in nomad’s land” are in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, volumes 8 and 9. Her misadventure “Easter Island: The Chilean with the Brazilian” is in Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana.
She’s a journalist at TheBlot Magazine (Wall St., New York) and covers topics ranging from cannibalism, bullfighting, dildos, Putin, gluten, twisted travel, tropical diseases, gross food, to outrageous world politics. She also went to Za’atari, the largest Syrian refugee camp, for an in depth, three-part series.
Her travel writing and photographs have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world, in publications as varied as DreamScapes travel & lifestyle magazine in Canada and The Guardian (UK), to the Iquitos Times in Peru and the Guatemala Times in Guatemala (obviously), to Outpost (a hardcore travel magazine) and Open Central Asia (a business and society magazine), plus she’s even made the front page of Kyrgyzstan’s national newspaper.
Kirsten also leads writing, photography and eating expeditions.