April Orcutt has written for BBC Travel, National Geographic Travel, TravelandLeisure.com (digital Travel + Leisure), Hemispheres (United Airlines' inflight), AAA magazines, Alaska Air, Australia's Escape, Australia's Vacations and Travel, National Geographic Traveller India, International Daily News (a Los Angeles Times Supplement for Chinese readership),Travel.AARP.org, the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, San Francisco Chronicle, GutsyTraveler, and more. She has also been a weekly travel columnist for the Los Angeles Times. April's stories have been published on Yahoo's, MSNBC's and Fortune magazine's travel websites, and her essays have run in newspapers and nine anthologies. April won two Gold Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition Awards, best newspaper feature in Visit California's Eureka Travel Writing Awards, and best American travel destination article in U.S. Travel Association's IPW Travel Writer Awards. April has also won two awards in the SATW Muster Photo Competition and was named TravMedia Journalist of the Year at ONE Travel. Recently April was honored to be included among Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende, and Tim Cahill in Geographic Expeditions' anthology, The Best of Wanderlust: Tales of Wonder & Connection.

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April writes destination pieces, journey articles, round-ups and essays and emphasizes nature, environmental awareness, indigenous cultures, quests, road trips, independent travel, local culture, women's travel, voluntourism, quirky subjects and humor. April's particularly interested in story ideas involving quests and compelling characters in intriguing places with environmental significance.