rhonda's travels

Rhonda Carrier has written and edited travel and guide books for Rizzoli, Frommer's, Time Out, and Lonely Planet, among others, and regularly writes on travel for publications as diverse as as Condé Nast Traveller, The Guardian, The Observer, and theFrenchPaper. She is also content editor and main features writer for TakeTheFamily.com and the family travel expert for the P&O Ferries website, has discussed family travel issues on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and appears as a guest editor at Dea Birkett's Travel Writing Workshops. She is also an occasional translator (French into English), mainly of tourist and marketing materials.

Rhonda's fiction is largely inspired by her travels. Her first published short story, ‘St Wilgefortis Blues’, won the Jack Trevor Story Memorial Prize after appearing in Neonlit: the Time Out Book of New Writing II (Penguin) in 2000; other short fiction has appeared in Image magazine, the Time Out Book of London Short Stories (Penguin), The Flash (Social Disease), Paint a Vulgar Picture: Stories Inspired by the Smiths (Serpent’s Tail), '68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution (Salt Publishing), and The French Literary Review. She has also reviewed new books for Time Out magazine, assessed fiction and non-fiction manuscripts for the Cornerstones literary advisory for more than five years, and is a consultant on travel, memoirs and other non-fiction for the publisher Gibson Square.

Rhonda is represented by Diana Tyler (fiction) and Susan Smith (non fiction) of MBA Literary Agents and can also be contacted at rhonda.carrier@takethefamily.com or followed on twitter.