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About Judith Wylie
Judith Babcock Wylie is a travel writer, editor, newspaper columnist and writing instructor who has been writing travel stories and essays full-time for 20 years. Her work has appeared in:
- Travel & Leisure
- The London Financial Times
- Modern Maturity
- Via
- TWA Ambassador
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Los Angeles Times
- Sacramento Bee
- San Jose Mercury News
- and over 75 other publications.
Her specialties are exotic luxury travel, soft adventure, mature travel, romantic travel, 'Net travel information and spas. Her books include:
- Best Places
- California Central Coast (Editor, 2002)
- Travelers' Tales: Love and Romance (Editor, 1998)
- Travelers' Tales: The Gift of Travel (Contributor, 1998)
- Travelers' Tales: Hong Kong (Contributor, 1996)
- A Dog's World (Contributor, 1999)
- The Spa Book (co-author, 1983)
- The Romance Emporium (co-author, 1986)
- and others.
She writes frequently about Hawaii, California, Southeast Asia and Western Europe.
She has a master's degree in education, and teaches writing workshops at New York University's School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies, the University of California Berkeley Extension, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has also given workshops on travel writing at the annual conference of Creative Non Fiction at Goddard College, at the California Writer's Club annual East of Eden Writer's Conference and other venues. She also speaks on how travel can change your life and how to make a "career veer" into work you are passionate about.
She is the recipient of the Big Island Hawaii Journalism Award 1995 and Malaysia Travel Writer of the Year (UK) given by the Malaysian Tourism Board.
 Judy lives on an organic apple farm in Santa Cruz, California, and writes in a rebuilt cabin overlooking the ocean.
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