Bay Area Travel Writer: Lisa Alpine

Bay Area Travel Writers: Lisa Alpine

Please join us for Travel Month at the library.

We are pleased to host author, story-teller, and Bay Area Travel Writer member Lisa Alpine. Lisa is the author of Wild Life: Travel Adventures of a Worldly Woman (the first-place winner of the 2014 North American Book Awards in the “Travel” category) and Exotic Life: Travel Tales of an Adventurous Woman (the first-place winner of the 2014 North American Book Awards in the “Memoir” category, and Best Women’s Adventure Memoir in the BAIPA Book Awards). She is the recipient of the Best Travel Story of the Year 2014 Solas Silver for “Fish Trader Ray”—included in Wild Life.

Lisa curates and hosts the 2014 and 2015 “Adventure Travel Stories with an All Star Line-up” literary series held at the Mill Valley Library and at Book Passage in California. Her stories appear in numerous anthologies, including Mambo Poa, Travelers’ Tales Best Travel Writing, BATW’s Travel Stories From Around the Globe, Lonely Planet Tales From Nowhere, I Should Have Stayed Home, I Should Have Gone Home, and Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why. She is the winner of the 2013 bronze medal under “Animal Encounter” for Trumpets of Warning; and the 2012 gold medal for Most Unforgettable Character in her story, Rada’s Bloom.

This free event will take place Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at South San Francisco Main Library.

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