Ryan Murdock is the author of A Sunny Place for Shady People, and Vagabond Dreams: Road Wisdom from Central America.

He's also the host of the podcast Personal Landscapes: Conversations on Books About Place.

Ryan has been writing about travel, culture and the world’s marginal places for over 22 years. His journeys have taken him to 80 countries, including desert expeditions and long solo trips through Central America and East and Southeast Asia.

He is Editor-at-Large (Europe) for Outpost, Canada’s national travel magazine, and a regular contributor to The Shift, an independent Maltese news portal.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.