Carolyn B. Heller is an award-winning Vancouver-based writer, storyteller, and photographer, specializing in immersive cultural, culinary, and experiential travel.
Her passion for new cultures, people, and foods has taken her to more than 50 countries on six continents.
The author of several travel guidebooks and a contributor to dozens more, she’s written extensively about her adopted country of Canada and about destinations around the world for publications including:
• Lonely Planet • BBC Travel • Travel + Leisure • Fodor’s Travel • TIME • Roadtrippers • Trip Savvy • Vegetarian Times • Forbes Travel Guide • Atlas Obscura • Montecristo Magazine • Verge Magazine • The Traveler’s Table • The Takeout • Smart Mouth • Roads & Kingdoms • Canadian Traveller • Explore-Mag.com • October Magazine • Edible Vancouver Island • Asparagus Magazine • Hotel-Scoop • Perceptive Travel • and many more.
She’s also done content marketing work for several travel companies, including Airbnb and Hipcamp, and for Canadian tourism organizations.
She's swapped fairy tales with a Druze family in the Golan Heights and shared okonomiyaki with a family in Tokyo; went ice-fishing in Nunavut and heli-hiking in British Columbia; studied Spanish in Ecuador and Costa Rica; and taken cooking lessons in many countries, including Vietnam, Grenada, Japan, Chile, and South Africa.
She speaks decent Spanish and French, and enough Mandarin Chinese to order dumplings and possibly buy a train ticket.
She's traveled from Vancouver to Halifax by train, and she's crisscrossed the USA multiple times, including a six-week mother-daughter road trip with her pre-teen twins, where they ate mashed potatoes with gravy in 14 states while searching for the perfect strawberry pie.
A dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, Carolyn is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers and the Travel Media Association of Canada.
After calling Boston home for more than 20 years, she and her family relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she can frequently be found running along the seawall, snacking in one of the city's Asian noodle shops, and planning her next adventure.
