Résumé

Paige R. Penland

104 Beechwood Ln; Oak Ridge, TN 37830
300m este Escuela Roosevelt; San Pedro Montes de Oca, Costa Rica
skype: paigerpenland
twitter.com/paigerpenland
paigerpenland@hotmail.com

Objective

Experienced travel writer specializing in and Southern Mexico and Central America is always looking for challenging projects that will help add to her knowledge, wisdom, bank account, and portfolio.

Achievements & Skills

Writer- Created original articles, weekly and monthly columns, interactive quizzes, fun horoscopes, and effective advertisements for a variety of websites, magazines, newspapers, and other media, including Carl’s Cars, Chickclick.com, Custom Auto, Dub magazine, Fabula, Homeandabroad.com, Kink, Kitchen Sink, Lowrider, Lowrider Arte, Lonelyplanet.com, Luxury Latin America.com, Minitruckin’, La Opinion, The Petopian, Popandpolitics.com, SF Weekly, Street Beat, Tico Times, Truckin’, Zia Sports, and more.
Authored or contributed to ten books, with more on the way.

Editor- Supervised several books as lead editor, taking Lonely Planet’s Miami, Los Angeles, and Cuba from acquisition to publication.
Managed the monthly political and music departments for Lowrider magazine, coordinating more than 20 freelance and staff journalists and photographers, assigning stories, and working with designers and advertisers.
Comfortable with the Associated Press Stylebook, Chicago Manual of Style, and several custom style manuals.

Online Content Management- Contributed to Lonely Planet’s award-winning website as a member of the New Media Team, managing the World Guide, producing special content for licensing, creating digital travel guides for Palm Pilot, and moderating the Thorn Tree online travel forum.

Publisher- Produced Iguanacaste Publishing’s popular travel guide A Week or Two In Nicaragua, working with freelance artists, editors, cartographers, designers, and printers, managing publicity, and establishing and maintaining a lucrative distribution network of retail stores, hotels, and other outlets in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Miscellaneous Skills

Fluent in Spanish.
Well-traveled in Europe, Asia and the Americas, with extensive experience in Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador England, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, the United States, and Vietnam; I’ve lived in Central America for more than five years.

Capable of navigating quickly and efficiently through regions with poorly developed infrastructure, armed militias, endemic tropical diseases, and linguistic/cultural barriers.
Solid photographer capable of delivering high quality, if not award-winning, digital photos.

Books

	*Costa Rica: With Excursions to Nicaragua & Panama* (Countryman; 1 edition (November 3, 2008) Covers all of Costa Rica's hotspots, from erupting volcanoes and white-sand beaches to cool cloud forests and bustling tropical metropolises. Includes easy trips across the border to Nicaragua and Panama.
	Nicaragua-El Salvador I (Lonely Planet Publications, 2006) A great guide to the Central America less traveled; I covered all of Nicaragua and edited El Salvador.
	A Week or Two in Southwest Nicaragua (Iguanacaste Publishing, 2005) A labor of love, this independent guidebook to Southwest Nicaragua—including Spanish Colonial Granada, the beach town of San Juan del Sur, and the volcanic Island of Ometepe, was the first of its kind.
	Costa Rica (Lonely Planet Publishing, 2004) Co-authored update of Lonely Planet’s most popular title covering the Americas.
	Santa Fe & Taos I (Lonely Planet Publishing, 2003) Wrote the first edition of this popular guidebook to New Mexico’s mystical capital and the beauty that surrounds it.
	*Lowrider: History, Pride, Culture*** (Motorbooks International, 2003) Critically acclaimed book chronicles the history of America’s lowest and slowest automotive movement.
	Driving California Highway One(Lonely Planet, 2003) Wrote the first edition of this extremely well received guidebook to California’s stunning coastal drive.
	Alaska (Lonely Planet, 2002) Co-authored update.
	Florida(Lonely Planet, 2002) Co-authored update.