Erin O'Dwyer is an award-winning freelance journalist and travel writer. She has been a contributing feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and has contributed to magazines as diverse as Australian Geographic and Vogue. She was awarded an Australian United Nations Media Peace Award in 2006. She has produced two radio features for ABC Radio National and has lectured in journalism at the University of Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney. (Source: Red Dust and Wanderlust, 2010)