NYC-based adventure, luxury, and lifestyle writer Margie Goldsmith has hiked, biked, paddled, climbed, run marathons, done triathlons, scuba-ed, ziplined, luxuriated, spa-ed, test-driven $200,000 vehicles, and conducted interviews on 7 continents in 118 countries, including South Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Oman, Thailand, Singapore, Cuba, Tibet, Nepal, Borneo, Mauritius, Tahiti, Easter Island, Marquesas Islands, Croatia, the Arctic and Antarctica.
She is a contributing writer to Elite Traveler, blogs travel for huffingtonpost.com, and is contributing travel editor adventure editor for Women's Running. She writes for Travel and Leisure.com, ForbesLife, National Geographic Traveler, Parade, O the Oprah Magazine, Robb Report, Business Jet Traveler, Islands, MORE, Men's Journal, American Way, Wine Enthusiast, Executive Travel, Private Clubs, Lexus, Centro y Sur, Affluent Traveler, Ensemble Lifestyles, Passport Newsletter, New York Times, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, and others. She is a published novelist (Screw-Up, Berkley Press) and her essays appear in Travelers Tales, The Walker Within, In Search of Adventure, and National Geographic's Spiritual Journeys.
Goldsmith is the winner of the 2009 and 2008 First Person/Essay ASJA (American Society of Journalists & Authors) Award, 2010 and 2009 NATJA (North American Travel Journalism Association) Award, Solas Award, and two-time Travel Classics winner.
She began her career in Paris as head of a post-production film company, and while there, wrote Screw-Up, a novel, published by Berkely Press. She next co-wrote a French motion picture, A Tout Casser (starring Michel Serrault). Upon returning to New York, she continued to write while learning how to edit and direct films. In 1983, she launched MG Productions, a NYC award-winning film/video production company specializing in promotional videos and PSAs until 1995, when she stopped to pursue writing full time.
Margie Goldsmith has been a trustee of Outward Bound USA and board advisor to the Elisa Monte Dance Company, NYC. She is a board emeritus of Advertising Women of New York, and a member of SATW, ASJA, and The Writers Guild.
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