Thousands of people make Panorama possible

Amira Laghzail is a third year student majoring in English Studies at MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY in Rabat, originating from Marrakesh. She is actively involved in extracurricular activities related to womanhood and we-for-she themes in hope of sensitising her surroundings to the struggles of women in her home country, and shed ...

Carrie Walker is a visual artist who can’t stay away from words. This entanglement has led her to make zines, artist books and countless drawings with titles that are too long. She is a recent graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio. Carrie is currently writing a memoir about her ...

Charlianne Sutcliffe is a recent graduate from Aberystwyth University with a first-class degree in English Literature, and she looks forward to a creative writing masters in September. She is from the East Midlands of England, caught between the bustle of the city and the majesty of the countryside. Her work ...

David Frankel was born in Salford. His stories have been shortlisted for awards including the Bristol Prize, the Bridport Prize, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Award, and the Fish Memoir Prize. He was also longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. His stories have appeared in publications including Best British Short ...

Emily Teitsworth is a Creative Writing and Publishing graduate of Susquehanna University. She is currently working at the University of Rochester in Communications and Marketing, and volunteers as a reader for several literary magazines. She writes a bit of everything, including short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She has had work ...

Based in New York City, Eric Daffron is a professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. His recent work has been published or accepted for publication in Synthesis: An Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, European Journal of Life Writing, L’Esprit Literary Review, The AutoEthnographer, Impost: A Journal ...

Erragab Eljanhaoui is a PhD Student at Ibn Zohr University, Morocco. He is tracing back various 19th Century Barbary Captivity Narratives. He is deconstructing an array of images and stereotypes drawn of the Sahrawi nomads who are inhabiting the Great Sahara Desert.

Evelyn Fok was born and raised in Hong Kong and is currently based in Mexico City. A former journalist, her writing has been published in Electric Literature, Spittoon, and Quarter Press, among others, and she is working on a novel.

Faith Adiele founded the USA’s first writing workshop for travelers of color through VONA and is the first columnist for DETOUR: Best Stories in Black Travel and a senior editor at PANORAMA: THE JOURNAL OF TRAVEL, PLACE, AND NATURE. Her award-winning memoir MEETING FAITH routinely makes travel listicles, and her ...

Genevieve Chornenki (www.genevievechornenki.com) is a poet, writer, editor, and literacy coach with a professional background as a civil mediator and arbitrator. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in print and online in Prairie Fire, The Brussels Review, Poetry Pause, and other publications in North America, Europe, and Australia. In ...

Giancarlo Malchiodi is forever a child of the Lower East Side of NYC who decided young to become a teacher of English. Sparking the creativity of many young minds over thirty years, he is now re-igniting his own. Finding escape/hope through literature and super-heroics, Giancarlo marvels moreso at the labor ...

Heather Dawe is a writer, artist and AI expert. Working in industry as a Chief Data Scientist, she has appeared on the BBC, Sky News, has written The Guardian, Financial Times and Economic Times, and is co-author of Responsible AI in the Enterprise (Packet, 2023). Heather’s wider work is inspired ...

I Echo is the pen name of Ghanaian-Nigerian writer Chris Baah who writes predominantly from Accra, Ghana. His works mostly revolve around masculinity, love, and connections. Dreaming of exploring the world, new cultures and new conversations, he hopes he can save the world by saving himself. He's on X as ...

Isadora Vadasz is a human rights lawyer based in Melbourne, Australia. She has travelled extensively in both a personal and professional capacity, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, and has spent periods living in Myanmar and Cambodia. Isadora writes as an outlet for sharing her experiences of travel and to ...

Isha Strasser is an organizational director, contemplative teacher striving to bring individuals and organizations into fuller alignment with purpose and power through vision and mission. For the past ten years she has worked as an educational nonprofit director for international and local organizations. She draws from twenty-five years of experience ...

Isi Unikowski lives in Canberra, Australia. He has been widely published in Australia, including Best of Australian Poems 2022, while in the US his poems have been published in the Atlanta Review, Avalon Review, New York Quarterly, Poetica, Slate and Verse Wisconsin. Kintsugi (2022) and Re:Vision (2025) are published by ...

Jake Zawlacki is a writer, translator, and scholar. His work on comics and animation have appeared in ImageTexT, The Gutter Review, Inks, The Comics Journal, and Folklorica, with a Todd McFarlane: Conversations volume forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi. His translations of the Kazakh poet Akhmet Baitursynuly have appeared ...

JR Fenn is from the Central Appalachians. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Boston Review, DIAGRAM, Versal, PANK, and Gulf Coast. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and an MFA from Syracuse University. Her work has been supported by Orion, Writing by Writers, Disquiet, and Key West ...

Judith Sanders’ poetry collection In Deep was published by Kelsay Books. Her work appears in numerous journals, including Pleiades, Calyx, The American Scholar, and Modern Language Studies; on the websites Vox Populi, Humor Darling, and Full Grown People; and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Her poems won the Hart Crane and ...

Karen Wertheim is an award-winning creative marketer, writer, and co-founder of Studio Unfurl, a travel-inspired creativity community born from a writing workshop in Kathmandu. A former ad executive, she led innovative marketing campaigns for brands like Goldman Sachs and LEGOLAND, then shifted her focus to more human-centric storytelling—trading brand voices ...

A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Banff Mountain and Wilderness Writing Program, Katie Ives has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Outside, Atlas Obscura, LitHub, Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette and The Rumpus, as well as several anthologies. She was an editor at ...

Katrina Woznicki is an award-winning writer and a 2024 Pushcart Prize nominee. In 2025, she received the Solas Awards' grand prize for Best Travel Story Of The Year for her piece, "It Can Be Beautiful For Everyone," which was first published by Panorama in 2024. Her essays and reporting have ...

​Kristin Vuković has written for the New York Times, BBC Travel, Travel + Leisure, Coastal Living, Virtuoso, The Magazine, Hemispheres, the Daily Beast, AFAR, Connecticut Review, and Public Books, among others. An early excerpt of her novel was longlisted for the Cosmonauts Avenue Inaugural Fiction Prize. She was named a “40 Under 40” honoree by the National ...

Laine Derr holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has published interviews with Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Ted Kooser, and Robert Pinsky. Work has appeared or is forthcoming from The Amistad, Mantis, J Journal, Full Bleed + The Phillips Collection, ZYZZYVA, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Lee Tyler Williams is a writer and amateur piano tuner from Texas.

Helping to craft each issue since Panorama was launched, Webb has developed, edited, and published works from authors, artists, designers, photographers, and filmmakers from the UK, Iran, Germany, Tajikistan, Sweden, US, Scotland, Brazil, Greenland, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Kenya, Nigeria, and beyond. He is looking forward to championing many more.

Nicolas D. Sampson is a writer-producer, and the author of the poetry collection Όμορφη η Υφήλιος (Beautiful, Our World In the Sun) by Armos Books. He wrote and co-produced Behind the Mirror (winner Best Thriller in the Manhattan Film Festival); and was an executive producer on Show Me the Picture: ...

Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago. His first full length collection is Not Akhmatova (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024). He has chapbooks published and/or forthcoming with the Origami Poems Project, above/ground, and LJMcD Communications. He is also the author of Wonder Woman; Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter ...

Pete McKinney was born and raised in the American MidWest, but now lives and writes from the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina.

Priya Dileep lives in Bangalore. Writing her 'author-bio' gives her stomach cramps.

Before she became a writer, Renée E. D’Aoust was a dancer. Her memoir-in-essays "Body of a Dancer" was published by Etruscan Press. D’Aoust teaches online at North Idaho College and Casper College. Her adopted dog looks like a very tiny Phyllis Diller and is named Zoë.

Rolando André López is a writer and poet born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Currently, he lives in Oakland, California. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. His work has been published in Orca Literary Journal, Passages North, Konch Magazine, and elsewhere. He was ...

Roopa Ramamoorthi is a scientist and poet. She grew up in Bombay or Mumbai and now lives in Berkeley. She is a many-time VONA fellow and has had over 80 pieces published, including Perspectives on NPR and in the anthologies She is Such a Geek, Dismantle, Red Skirt Blue Jeans, ...

Ruadhán MacFadden is a writer, originally from Ireland, now living in Germany. His work has been used by UNESCO ICM, and has appeared in literary journals in Ireland, the UK, the US, and India. He has also written a book on the history and decline of the Irish folk wrestling ...

S.D. Dillon is a poet and small business owner from Michigan. He has an AB from Princeton and an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was Managing Editor of The Bend in 2004. His poetry has appeared recently in Tampa Review, Door = Jar, Wild Roof Journal, Gabby & Min’s ...

Samuel A. Autman is a US-born essayist, travel writer and college professor whose work focuses on identity, place and pop culture. His essays have appeared in The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, The Kept Secret: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction, The Chalk Circle: Prizewinning Intercultural Essays, Bellevue ...

Sandra Tan is a writer from Singapore. Her poems have appeared in Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, The Oxonian Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Kindling, and Eastlit.

Sara Hardin is a visual artist and art educator based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work explores the connection between place and memory and has been exhibited throughout Louisiana. She is represented by M Contemporary in New Orleans.

Shaul Bassi is Professor of English at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His publications include Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, ‘Race’, and Politics (2016), Turbo Road. Il Kenya, i suoi scrittori, un bambino (2023) and Venice and the Anthropocene. An Ecocritical Guide (co-edited, 2022). He is the co-founder of ...

Sherry Weaver Smith searches for poems while traveling in the American West. A medical auditor and former grant writer, she lives in Oregon and has one daughter. Her poems have been published in the California Quarterly, The Heron’s Nest, The Seventh Quarry, the Origami Poems Project, and the Arizona Literary ...

Stephen J. Bush is a computational biologist who lives in Xi’an, China. He also writes fiction on occasion.

Steve Russell, artist. Dealing with issues of self, identity and symbols through the medium of paint, ephemera and other drawing materials. My practice is a figurative style that marries diverse elements into an instantly recognizable, idiosyncratic idiom that is at times touching, dramatic and visceral. Using line and dramatically visceral ...

Sue Eisenfeld’s essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian, Washingtonian, The Forward, Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, and many other U.S. magazines and literary journals, and her essays have been listed six times among the Notable Essays of the Year in The Best American Essays. ...