NATJA - North American Travel Journalists Association

Member

Nancy Pistorius

2816 Harrison Avenue
Lawrence KS 66047-3052 United States
(785) 865-4308
squwigr@mac.com

External Website

http://www.nancypistorius.com

Biography

Nancy Pistorius has been a freelance writer practically from the time she could hold a pen, winning national awards for her poetry, fiction, and essays in grade school. She began her travel writing career as a teenager, penning a weekly travel column (The Student Traveler) for the State Journal-Register (Illinois). Since then, she has written travel articles on a variety of subjects, including family travel on cruise ships for a parenting magazine. She was recently on staff as an Editorial Writer (writing Daytrip, Weekend Getaway, Museum, and Local Attractions features) for SOCIAL, a glossy women's magazine (now-defunct) based in Kansas City. Currently she is a travel writer for SPRINGFIELD'S OWN magazine (both online and in print) in Illinois and the Kansas City Getaways Examiner for Examiner.com. Her most recent honor was the 2009 Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award (Fiction).

Credits

WOMANS DAY, COSMOPOLITAN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ILLINOIS TIMES, the STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER, SPRINGFIELD PARENT,the LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD, TRAVELWORLD INTERNATIONAL, MSNBC.com, SEASONS, etc. She has been published in more than seventy different literary and mass-market publications.

Affiliations

Member of NATJA, ITWA (International Travel Writers Alliance), JWKC (Juvenile Writers of Kansas City), The Midwest Entertainment Connection, and University of Illinois Alumni (M.A. in English)

Links to Published Work