Amanda Castleman

Location: Seattle, WA, United States

Member Since: 8 November 2002

Professional Associations

 Travelwriters.com

 Society of Professional Journalists

Experience & Expertise

Amanda Castleman is a freelance journalist, specializing in travel, adventure, the environment and women's issues. Her articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, MSNBC.com, Wired, Salon, Italy Daily, Sport Diver and The Athens News, as well as the UK's BBC, Guardian and Mail on Sunday. Despite her yoga-and-yogurt appearance, she's a former wilderness guide. Her Honduras scuba article won a 2007 Lowell Thomas award (travel writing's ersatz Pulitzer). Amanda has worked on more than two dozen books, including Greece, A Love Story and Rome in Detail, as well as titles for National Geographic, Frommer's, Michelin, DK Eyewitness, Time Out and Rough Guides. American by birth, this author spent eight years in Europe. She lived on a traditional narrowboat, moored on the Oxford Canal in England. She also endured two years swilling espresso in Italy, as a Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome, then ranged further afield to Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. Seattle, her native city in the Pacific Northwest, is once again her home base. She has also worked as an editor, staff writer, graphic and web designer. Amanda now teaches through Writers.com, the Richard Hugo House and Travel Writing Class.com, which next offers a week-long workshop in Rome, spring 2010. Bring her an apple and she'll reveal the best espresso in the Eternal City...

Publishing Credentials

Outside, Alaska Airlines Magazine, The International Herald Tribune's Italy Daily, Wired Magazine, Wired News, Athens News, MSNBC, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Express, Sport Diver, Salon Magazine, Michelin, Frommer's, Time Out, Rough Guide, MSN Underwire, BBC Thames Valley FM, New Jersey Life Health + Beauty, Cotswold Life, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Bride, AOL Seed, Northwest Dive News, Wanderlust and Lipstick, travelgirl, Thomas Cook phrasebooks, Wanderlust and Lipstick, Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness, Single State of the Union, Greece A Love Story, Italy A Love Story, Rome in Detail, Bank Travel Management, Corriere della Sera, The International Examiner, MSN Daily Access, AmEx's Square, GEICO Direct, The Washington State Visitors Guide, AA Guide to Rome, In These Times, Moviemaker, Travel Age West, International Living, Trip, Living Abroad, Intelliguides, Z-Guides, Road and Travel, Adbusters, Gloucester Echo, Western Daily Press, Nervy Girl, Bitch, Northwest Travel, Aspen Daily News, Outdoor West, Business and Marketing Management, Wanted in Rome, Continental Drift, Destinworld, eMedia, Red Group, Efemera, Fresh Direction

Awards Received

Columbia Scholastic Press Association – Golden Circle Awards First Place Award in In-depth News/Feature Writing Third Place Award in Feature Photography First Place Design Award in News Publication Single Subject Presentation First Place Design Award in Newspaper Publication Photo Layout Pacemaker Award (for top five student newspapers in America) First-place In-depth Reporting, Society of Professional Journalists, West Coast Skills

Clips & Samples (View All 3)

Cocktails in the wilderness, hiking boots in the boardroom: wild child Seattle balances work and play, travelgirl

At the Seashore with Medea: A Marriage Unravels in Athens, Seal Press Anthology

Roatan, Honduras: Calm as the Hurricane's Eye, Road & Travel