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Lauren Elyse Matison was born in Manhattan, grew up in Los Angeles, lived in Paris and Rome, studied in London, and recently graduated from Connecticut College. She has worked for Los Angeles Magazine, Hearst’s Diversion, and is now on the editorial team at BizBash Media, which publishes a bi-monthly magazine covering the national event planning industry. |
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Vincent Crossley spent long hours developing this site, and hopes you enjoy his handiwork. In addition to web development, he enjoys photography and discovering new places to surf. Vince was born in Paris, lived in London, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, and now resides in the heart of Manhattan, taking every chance he gets to explore off the island. Vince graduated from Lehigh University with degrees in Design and Mechanical Engineering, and continued with a graduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Danielle Rago is a native New Yorker who has a background in Architecture and English from Lehigh University. She has begun work towards her Masters of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and has plans to continue here in New York City. An avid traveler, she has lived in New York, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, and Vicenza, Italy. Her work has spanned the fields of interior design, exhibition design, architecture, and architectural journalism. She is a published author, most notably featured in Architectural Record magazine. Her interests lie in art, architecture, design, writing, photography, and travel. |
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Candida DaFonseca is a New Jerseyan and a recent college grad with a restlessness that can only be cured by embarking on new adventures as often as possible. She relishes sharing her moments with fellow travelers in hopes of inspiring them to collect memories of their own. She only needs good music and a good friend to accompany her, though sometimes just the music will suffice. She’s an editor by trade and a wanderer by nature and when she can combine them both, she’s in her element. |
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Rick Monaco lives in New York City, having moved from California where he worked in the film industry. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and online at 3am Magazine. His mother once had a date with Joe DiMaggio. |
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Michael C. Neal was raised in the great Midwest (Indiana), educated in the new South (Morehouse College), and was made aware of the cost of living in NYC. That last part began over seven years ago. Between then and now he usually works in Manhattan, previously as an editor at Penguin Group publishing then as a writer for Bravo Television, but he is always– always in Brooklyn. That’s because he lives in Brooklyn. Michael’s travels include, but are not limited to Barcelona, Dublin, Jamaica, London, Madrid, Montreal, Northern Italy, Puerto Rico, and Venice. He liked all those places just fine. He loves New York. And has he mentioned Woody Allen yet? He will. Visit his blog. |
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Emilie Teresa Stigliani made her first trip across the Atlantic when she was eleven months old. She spent her childhood in Austria where she discovered a sense of wanderlust, which has transplanted her many times. After extended travels all over Europe and the Americas, she now makes her home in Manhattan where she belongs to the Morningside Writers. She is in awe of the world and seeks to experience both the near and far. |
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A born and bred New Yorker, Mel Neuhaus’ creative joys in life comprise of cinema, writing and photography. These passions have luckily melded to provide a lively livelihood via career articles/interviews/dvd reviews for the likes of Turner Classic Movies, Sound & Vision, Home Theatre, and Perfect Vision, plus a smattering of gallery showings. When not pounding the laptop keys or snapping the Fujifilm shutter, Mel and his fashion designer wife, Angela, enjoy the stress-busting company of their Palomino quarter horse, Coop. Their fondest travel memories include memorable excursions to Santa Barbara, CA and Durango, CO – but they’re equally content by “hangin” in their happening Cortelyou Road Brooklyn nabe. |
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Emily Paul is a writer and avid traveler living in Astoria, Queens. She is a graduate of New York University where she designed her own academic major, which combined the studies of dramatic writing and mythology. Emily has worked as a teaching assistant for dramatic writing classes at the Tisch School of the Arts, and her plays have been seen in theatres around New York City—most notably Wake Her Up, a rock musical, which modernizes the myth of Psyche and Eros. Emily is currently writing a book for this developing project and is collaborating with composer and lyricist Janine McGuire. |
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Elizabeth Hewitt has called NYC home for over 8 years, the past 5 of which she’s lived in Brooklyn, the borough she loves best. She holds a BFA in interior design from FIT and a masters degree in urban planning from NYU. She’s happiest when exploring and analyzing the ever-changing happenings of the built environment and the people in and around it, traveling to new places near and far, finding hidden local gems wherever she is, and documenting it all through the lens of her camera. She’s studying for her LEED accreditation, and hopes to one day single-handedly change the world through green design. She researches the real estate market for her 9-5 “day job,” and is also a freelance reporter for McGraw-Hill’s New York Construction Magazine. |
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Suzanne Russo is a California girl who always wanted to live in New York City. She grew up in San Francisco, studied English and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and recently completed her MA in English at NYU. When the travel bug bites, Suzanne is known to do such crazy things as spend a month driving around the country in a Saturn named “The Squirrel” and make pilgrimages to famous festivals from Mardi Gras to Oktoberfest. She has traveled throughout Europe, Argentina, and Peru. A new transplant to New York (she’s been here almost two years), Suzanne spends much of her time of late exploring the East Coast. She’s been working as a travel writer for the past two years and her writing has appeared in V!VA Travel Guides, EuroCheapo.com, Brides Magazine, and ClassicTravel.com. |
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A California native, Chad Menville moved to New York a decade ago, earning degrees at New School and Columbia University. Travel is his passion. He also teaches music and volunteers. Chad is a contributing writer to leading music, film and theatre websites. |
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Amy Lee Pearsall was born in New Mexico, raised in Texas, and has called New York home for the past eleven years. When she is not writing, traveling, taking photographs or generally raising hell, she is an acting company and artistic board member for Wide Eyed Productions. On occasion, she updates her blog, karmacommentarykafka.blogspot.com. |
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Originally from upstate New York, while pursuing a degree in journalism Amber Nolan lived and worked in London as a writer for an international activist newspaper. While in London she spent every spare moment exploring Europe and has also traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean. NYC was the next stop on her growing list of places to live and pursue her dream as a travel writer. Jamaica however, remains her favorite destination where she returns each year for some beach time and cliff diving in Negril, and for the island’s reggae beats and jerk chicken. Her writing has also appeared on MSNBC.com and WeJustGotBack.com, and she is currently working with Sherman’s Travel. |