Dustin Grinnell

Dustin Grinnell is an award-winning writer and adventurer who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, hitchhiked through New Zealand, driven a motorcycle across the U.S., and backpacked through Britain, Spain, France, Costa Rica, and China. His expeditions have been featured as essays in magazines, journals, and the Sunday travel sections of newspapers such as The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. He has won two Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing and an honorable mention from the North American Travel Journalists Association Awards Competition. Grinnell is also the author of three novels and a short story collection. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Solstice MFA Program, an MS in physiology from Penn State, and a BA in psychobiology from Wheaton College (MA). He grew up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and now lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts.