NYC-based adventure, luxury, and lifestyle writer Margie Goldsmith has hiked, biked, paddled, climbed, run marathons, done triathlons, scuba-ed, ziplined, luxuriated, spa-ed and conducted interviews in 101 countries on 6 continents. In the past four years alone, Margie has been on assignment in South Korea, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Cuba, Tibet, Nepal, Brazil, Provence, Borneo, China, India, New Zealand, Australia, Morocco, South Africa, Jordan, Mauritius, Tahiti, Honduras, Panama, Peruvian Amazon, Easter Island, Spain, Portugal, Tuscany, Paris, Great Britain, Mexico, Bermuda, Marquesas Islands, Denmark, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Dubai, Fiji, Croatia, Patagonia, Buenos Aires, and throughout America.
She is a contributing writer to Elite Traveler and Art & Antiques. a senior contributor to Executive Traveler, and has also written for National Geographic Traveler, O the Oprah Magazine, Robb Report, Town & Country, Islands, MORE, Men’s Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, AAA Magazines, Four Seasons, Modern Bride, Elegant Wedding, DISTINCTION, Healing Spas & Lifestyles, New York Living, Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, SKI Magazine, LINKS, Kiwi, Chief Executive Magazine and others. She is a published novelist (Screw-Up, Berkley Press) and her essays appear in Travelers Tales, The Walker Within, and In Search of Adventure.
Goldsmith is the winner of the 2008 First Person/Essay ASJA (American Society of Journalists & Authors) Award, winner of the 2008 NATJA (North American Travel Journalism Association) Awards, a Solas Awards winner (Travelers Tales), and a two-time Travel Classics winner for Best Essay.
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 and ASJA.
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