Kari J. Bodnarchuk
Kari Bodnarchuk is a Boston-based freelance writer, who has thrown out, given away, or burned her belongings in more than 35 countries around the world. She is author of Rwanda: Country Torn Apart and Kurdistan: Region Under Siege, and has contributed to Sports Illustrated for Women, Islands and Backpacker Magazine, as well as The Boston Globe, Denver Post and Christian Science Monitor. Her writing has also appeared in several Travelers' Tales books (Her Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel, Gutsy Women and Australia) and Seal Press anthologies (Drive: Women's True Stories from the Open Road and The Unsavvy Traveler: Women's Comic Tales of Catastrophe). When Kari isn't writing or traveling, she teaches classes on women's solo travel. Visit her website: www.karib.us