Jennifer Bain is a prolific and Lowell Thomas award-winning freelance travel writer and guidebook author who wanders the world in search of quirk. She’s a journalist who started her newspaper career covering breaking news, crime and courts before switching to food and travel. She writes for a variety of outlets.
Jennifer has co-authored multiple Lonely Planet guidebooks (focusing on Newfoundland & Labrador, Jasper National Park and the Icefields Parkway), and authored two 111 Places guidebooks about Calgary and Ottawa. She spent 18 years at Canada’s biggest newspaper, the Toronto Star, as travel editor, food editor and Saucy Lady columnist while writing two cookbooks.
A mom of three, Jennifer lives in Toronto with her retired bison rancher husband and has a writing retreat on one of the “four corners of the Flat Earth” — Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read her resume here. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and a Bachelor of Journalism.