Crossing Time Zones author Annika Hipple is a lifelong traveler, ever since her first plane trip (from Boston to Stockholm) at the age of five months. She has ridden a camel in the Gobi, braved the winds at Cape Horn, searched for rhinoceros from the back of an elephant in Nepal, snorkeled with sharks in the Galápagos, camped on a beach in the Ecuadorian rainforest, rafted the Zambezi River below Victoria Falls, ventured into ancient Egyptian tombs, tubed through a cave filled with glowworms in New Zealand, climbed Mayan pyramids in Mexico, and come face-to-face with the massive moai heads of Easter Island.

Raised bilingual and bicultural, Annika holds citizenship of both the United States and Sweden and feels equally at home in both countries. A freelance writer and editor specializing in travel, environmental issues, and international development, she is currently based in Seattle, Washington, but writes about destinations and issues all over the world. Her work has appeared in a wide range of print and online publications, including Sierra, AAA Journey, Earth Island Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Trip Magazine, and Away.com. She is the news editor for Ethical Traveler, a nonprofit organization that seeks to harness the economic power of tourism to protect the environment and human rights.

In addition to journalism, Annika writes marketing and and web content and provides editorial and social media consulting services to clients in her fields of specialization, including travel, hospitality, and recreation companies; nongovernmental organizations and agencies working on environmental and social issues; and sustainable and socially responsible businesses.

Alongside her writing work, Annika also leads trips throughout the world as a freelance tour manager and guide. She loves nature, photography, reading, salsa dancing, world and folk music, history, and languages.

For more about Annika, visit her website.