Avital Binshtock Andrews has been covering travel and people for more than 15 years. Her articles have been among the 10 most emailed or viewed on the Los Angeles Times, Pacific Standard, Outside, and Smarter Travel websites. Her work also appears in USA Today, Business Insider, Outside, The Week, Yahoo Travel, MSN Travel, Jetsetter, and other major outlets.

Her book, Frommer’s Napa & Sonoma day by day, is going into its fourth edition, and her journalism gets national media attention, including from the New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, NPR, and MTV. Avital is also the lifestyle editor of Sierra magazine, holds degrees from UCLA and Stanford, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.