Antonia Malchik

Location: Blooming Grove, NY, United States

Member Since: 17 February 2003

Professional Associations

 Travelwriters.com

Introduction

When Antonia Malchik was fifteen, her parents removed her from Montana, dropped her on the streets of Soviet Moscow and said, "Don't get lost." Since then she has worked as a church secretary in Vienna, an IT journalist in Australia, and a barista in Russia, and has managed to get solidly lost everywhere she travels.

Finding her place with maps and the help of locals has determined the direction of her writing: Antonia Malchik focuses not on the movement or adventure of travel, but on the character of place. She has written about a small coffee roasting business in Moscow, hiking at dawn in the Australian Outback, the uneasy adjustment of a Montana native living in Boston and New York, and satisfying book addictions in London.

Antonia Malchik has published essays in the Boston Globe, The Walrus, The Vancouver Courier, and Go World Travel, among other publications, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She also writes a blog for the award-winning Web site Perceptive Travel. She is currently working on My Russian Condition, a memoir about her lifelong relationship with Russia.

Publishing Credentials

The Boston Globe, Austria Today, MIS Australia, Vancouver Courier, GoNOMAD, Go World Travel, The Walrus, The MacGuffin, The Jabberwock Review, Pology, Travelmag UK

Clips & Samples (View All 10)

Kids' Play in Vienna (Old Vienna Seems to be Feeling Childlike), The Boston Globe

Unlocking the Secrets of New York's Hudson Valley, Travelwise (forthcoming)

To Russia--With Soap, Travelmag UK, Pology

My Russian Condition, The MacGuffin

Getting gritty in Australia's Outback, Vancouver Courier, Travelwise