Our first featured contributor of Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 is not only an author, activist, speaker, and singer-songwriter, she is — by her own admission — a viajera loca (crazy traveler!). The 
author of Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist, which won a 2008 Nautilus Gold Award for world-changing books, Marisa Handler has also written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Salon.com, The Sun, and Bitch. She speaks and sings about visionary social change all over the country. Check out her album, Dark Spoke, and her website at www.marisahandler.com.
What is “home” for you? Is it a particular place or person or thing?
I’m still figuring that one out. I grew up in South Africa until my family emigrated when I was eleven, spent a year living in Jerusalem, and have spent at least a couple of other years traveling abroad elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »
