Julian Smith is an award-winning writer, editor and photographer specializing in travel, science and lifestyle topics.

He is the author of guidebooks to El Salvador, Ecuador, Virginia and the Four Corners, and has won the Lowell Thomas Award for best guidebook from the Society of American Travel Writers.

Julian’s writing and photography has appeared in numerous books, magazines, newspapers, and websites.

With a background in the natural sciences, including degrees in biology and wildlife ecology, he helped launch and edit Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, an international peer-reviewed scientific journal.

He lives in Portland, Oregon.