Lauded by Time magazine as "one of the new generation of intrepid female travel writers," Laurie Gough is author of Kiss the Sunset Pig, and Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine's Travel Book of the Year in the US. Twenty of her stories have been anthologized in various literary travel books, including Salon.Com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance; AWOL: Tales for Travel-Inspired Minds; Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write From the Road; Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure; and A Woman's Passion for Travel. Besides being a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail, she has written for USA Today, salon.com, The L.A. Times, The National Post, Outpost, Canadian Geographic, Caribbean Travel+Life, and numerous literary journals. Gough is married, has a little boy, lives in
Wakefield, Quebec (and sometimes San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) and likes travelling to places where she fantasizes living some day.
