Laurie Gough

Who is Laurie Gough?

Laurie Gough is an author of travel books and freelance writer. She has been lauded by Time Magazine as "one of the new generation of intrepid young female travel writers".

Gough is the author of Kiss the Sunset Pig: An American Road-trip with Exotic Detours, published in 2006. In 1999 she published Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey, published in Canada as Island of the Human Heart, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine's Travel Book of the Year in the US.

She is the author of numerous travel articles. Sixteen 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 and Other Misadventures: 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: True Stories of World Wanderlust.

She has written for salon.com, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Outpost, Canadian Geographic, and numerous literary journals.