Julian Smith is an award-winning writer specializing in travel and science.

His articles and photographs have appeared in Smithsonian, Wired, Outside, National Geographic Traveler, New Scientist, Discover, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and US News & World Report, among others.

Julian's 2009 book Crossing the Heart of Africa, about retracing the route of a love-struck British explorer across the continent, won awards from the Banff Mountain Festival Book Competition, the Society of American Travel Writers and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

With degrees in biology and wildlife ecology, Julian helped launch and edit Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, an international peer-reviewed scientific journal. He has written travel guidebooks to El Salvador, Ecuador, Virginia, the Four Corners and Portland, Oregon, and has taught writing, editing, and literature at the Gotham Writers' Workshop and the College of Santa Fe.

He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and daughters.

Read an interview by travel writer Rolf Potts.

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