Carolyn B. Heller

Carolyn's travel, food, and feature articles -- about ethnic restaurants, Caribbean travel, family volunteering, local eating, Canadian spas, bike touring, parenting twins, chocolate in Paris, cupcakes in Vancouver, homestay travel, and more -- have appeared in publications ranging from the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and Miami Herald; to FamilyFun, Real Weddings, Perceptive Travel, Northwest Meetings and Events, FACES, Pulse (International Spa Association), Global Connection, and Harmony Airways' magazines; to the book, Travelers’ Tales Paris.

A full-time freelance writer and editor since 1996, Carolyn has contributed to more than 50 travel and restaurant guides to destinations from Asia to New England to the Pacific Northwest. Recent credits include:

Author of Moon Handbooks Ontario, a first-edition guidebook covering unique experiences, great local eating, and distinctive places to stay, from Toronto, Ottawa, and Niagara Falls to the Thousand Islands, the Bruce Peninsula, and other destinations across Canada's most diverse province.

Author of Living Abroad in Canada, a travel and relocation guide from Avalon Travel Publishing

Contributing author of Lonely Planet's The World's Best Street Food and China guides

Covered Vancouver sights, restaurants, and shopping, as well as Victoria, the Cowichan Valley, and the southern Gulf Islands, for Fodor's Vancouver & Victoria guide

Contributing author of Fodor's Pacific Northwest guidebook

Consulting editor, Zagat Survey's Beijing and Hong Kong guides

Wrote an online Vancouver destination guide for SmarterTravel.com

Contributing author of Moon Metro Vancouver from Avalon Travel Publishing

Contributing author of Best Places Northwest from Sasquatch Books.

Carolyn previously wrote three editions of the Zagat Survey's Boston Restaurants guide, covering more than 1000 places to eat in Boston, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. She is also a long-standing contributor to many Fodor's Travel Guides.