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  • I blog about travel, culture, art and more for the Huffington Post, one of the most-read blogs on the web, and write a column about travel and luxury lifestyle twice a month for The Street. I'm teaching a travel writing workshop over at the Renegade Writer. I've contributed to American Archaeology, AmericanStyle, Boston Magazine, Business Traveler, BusinessWeek, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Continental, Group Travel Planet, Fast Company, Glamour, Ladies’ Home Journal, Men's Journal, Money, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Robb Report, Reason, Sierra Magazine, USA Weekend, The Washington Post, Working Mother, Yankee, Yoga Journal, among other places. I've been a Contributing Editor at Inc., and Editor-at-Large at American Demographics magazine, a New York Times Professional Fellow and a National Press Foundation Fellow. My articles have won awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the American Society of Business Press Editors. I started my career writing books, and am the proud author of Americans at Play, which is about trends in outdoor recreation and travel (New Strategist 1997) and Best of Health, which is about trends in health. (New Strategist, 2000).

Featured Work

  • Into the Wild--Inc.
    The senior managers of Timbuk2, a San Francisco-based manufacturer of messenger bags, gathered on a gently sloping granite ledge at an altitude of 12,000 feet, overlooking the blue-gray shimmer of one of the dozen or so Ice Lakes, slopes of stubby pine trees, and beyond onto ragged peaks. It was the middle of June, but snow still mounded on the ground. A thunderstorm had just skirted the campsite and the wind screamed constantly, cold and fierce. The group was halfway through a seven-day backpacking trip organized by the National Outdoor Leadership School, or NOLS. Accompanying them were two NOLS instructors and me; I'd tagged along to see what would happen.
  • Island of the Midwinter Sun --Men's Journal
    Can a Caribbean island withstand a cruise ship assault?
  • Your Name In Stick Up Lightbulbs: New York Magazine
    How infomercial king AJ Khubani finds the "but wait there's more" products that make millions.
  • Gary Heavin is On a Mission From God: Inc., October 2006
    This story just won a 2007 outstanding article award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. It's a profile of Curves, the 30 minute fitness franchise, and its charismatic leader, Gary Heavin. There's one Curves for every two McDonald's in the United States, which was reason enough to spend two weeks in Waco figuring out what makes such a simple concept make such big bucks. This story is the first feature on Curves to run in a national business magazine.
  • A Wild Pair--Robb Report
    My profile of a luxury safari lodge in Kruger National Park.
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Alison Stein Wellner's Bio

What do I like to write about? I've always had trouble with the question, because the honest answer is, I like to write about things that interest me, and that covers a lot of territory.

If you were to press my back up against the wall, I'd say I specialize in narrative stories about places and travel. I'm on a mission to explore every corner of the globe. In 2007, I tackled assignments that took me to Germany, China, Argentina, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Honduras, South Africa, and flitted around North America quite a bit in between.

My credits are as follows:

I blog about travel for the Huffington Post, and write a column on travel and lifestyle for TheStreet.com I've written for Boston Magazine, Business Traveler, BusinessWeek, The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Continental, Fast Company, Glamour, Ladies’ Home Journal, Men's Journal, Money, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Reason, Robb Report, Sierra Magazine, USA Weekend, The Washington Post, Working Mother, Yankee, Yoga Journal, among other places. I've been a a contributing editor at Inc. magazine and former editor-at-large at American Demographics magazine, a New York Times Professional Fellow and a National Press Foundation Fellow, and my articles have won awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the American Society of Business Press Editors.  I started my career writing books, and am the proud author of Americans at Play, which is about trends in outdoor recreation and travel (New Strategist 1997) and Best of Health, which is about trends in health. (New Strategist, 2000).

My online portfolio is at www.wellner.biz, or acuriousmind.typepad.com 

Whew. On the personal side, I'm a New Yorker, born, raised and still residing in Manhattan.  I spent  about eight years living outside of the city, in various non-urban spots throughout the Northeast. I always really enjoy coming home, which is stocked with my husband Phil, a brilliant and tough and may I add, super-cute, lawyer, and our two fabulous cats, Buzz and Ginger.