Carolyn M McCarthy

Location: Puerto Montt, Chile

Member Since: 15 January 2001

Professional Associations

 Travelwriters.com

Introduction

Traveller and adventurer Carolyn McCarthy has been writing about the Americas since 1998, when she bumped across Bolivia and Argentina by bus. Her fascination for struggles in far-flung locales led her to write about street children in Ecuador, an Amazonian teenager and subsistence ranchers in rural Patagonia. Her work is informed by the natural environment as well as the everyday experience of those who live off the grid and outside of modern norms.

Carolyn divides her time between freelancing, guiding trekking trips in Chile and writing guidebooks. She has contributed to Lonely Planet's Middle of Nowhere anthology, Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands guide, South America on a Shoestring and Central America on a Shoestring (2008 release). She is a contributing editor at South American Explorer and her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Toronto Sun and The Salt Lake Tribune. She also is a former Fulbright fellow and a current recipient of a Banff Mountain Centre creative grant.

Carolyn lives in Patagonia where she is working on a book project about the disappearing pioneer landscape. You may contact her directly at carolynmccarthy@hotmail.com.

Visit her travel blog at http://carolynswildblueyonder.blogspot.com/

Experience & Expertise

Based in Latin America, I focus on travel, adventure, environmental and cultural issues. I also take photos, video and do podcasts.

Publishing Credentials

National Geographic, Lonely Planet guidebooks, online blog, podcast and syndicate columns, Salt Lake Tribune, Boston Globe, South American Explorers

Awards Received

2003 Fulbright Fellow, Banff Mountain Center grant

Clips & Samples (View All 8)

 Isn’t It Romantic?, South American Explorer

 The Pioneering Pleasures of Patagonia, The Salt Lake Tribune

 Exploring fragile wilds of Oriente, The Salt Lake Tribune

 Educating Ecuador’s Street Girls, South American Explorer

 Flirting: Captured Scenes of the Galápagos, South American Explorer