Durant, Oklahoma

Sophia Dembling is a Dallas, Texas-based writer specializing in travel, health and fitness and psychology. Sophia is author of The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas and co-author of The Making of Dr. Phil. Her work has appeared in World Hum, Delta Sky, Southwest Spirit, Texas Journey, The Dallas Morning News, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Beliefnet.com and many other publications. Her travel writing is anthologized in several Travelers’ Tales books, including Travelers’ Tales Thailand, There’s No Toilet Paper . . . on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure and The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2009. Her essays also appear in P.S.: What I Didn’t Say and Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends

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Jenna Schnuer has written about a rather random assortment of topics, from spending an hour getting schooled in golf by Alice Cooper (yes, that Alice Cooper) to hanging out with mushers on the Iditarod Trail and playing marbles in Tompkinsville, Kentucky. And there was a trapeze class; many profiles of people, places, and events; and loads of other good stuff along the way. A contributing editor for American Way the American Airlines magazine, she has also written for World Hum, Continental, National Geographic Traveler, Viv, Executive Travel, some guidebooks, and a bunch of other places.