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About UsLiterary Traveler is dedicated to the exploration of the literary imagination. We hope to bring you inspiring, informative articles about writers, creative artists, and the places that they lived and traveled. Literary Traveler has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Literary Traveler was launched in March of 1998 by the husband and wife team of Linda and Francis McGovern. The McGoverns met while studying English at Suffolk University, in Boston. Their love of literature and travel inspired them to create Literary Traveler.
Linda McGovern is the Co-founder and founding editor for Literary Traveler. She received her Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies from Lesley University. Before Literary Traveler, she was at The Atlantic Monthly, where she had the opportunity to work with the travel editor Barbara Wallraff. "Great literature, like great travel is essentially about experience, one you read, the other you live, both reveal what is true. That's what we are trying to do with Literary Traveler, and when I tell people about it. They say, 'That is a great idea, it is about time somebody did that.' " Linda gets the credit for sparking the idea of Literary Traveler. On the day they met, she suggested that she wanted to travel and write. Francis took it to heart and and they have been at it ever since. Linda is also a certified personal trainer and writes on fitness and personal training at perfect40.com. "We hope that when people read a book, and then visit Literary Traveler to learn about the author, and the places they lived and traveled - they become inspired to read and travel more, and maybe they even start writing themselves. They start exploring their literary imagination - they become part of what they have read and it is always with them." ~ Francis McGovern, Founder
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Francis McGovern is the Co-founder and founding editor and publisher at Literary Traveler. He was at Walking Magazine and then spent three years at Lycos.com where he served as a product manager for their suite of personalization products including My Fidelity and My Lycos. He has also helped run a search engine consulting practice as well as serve as Vice President of Operations for the reviewed.com network.
Jennifer Ciotta is a Contributing Editor (formerly Editorial Director) for Literary Traveler. She graduated from Bucknell University with a B.A. in English, including a semester abroad at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. Following graduation, she moved to Estonia for the Peace Corps to teach English as a foreign language in a small village for two years. During that time, Jennifer traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe. At the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, Jennifer earned her M.A. in Creative Writing and Russian Studies, which culminated into a general fiction novel about contemporary Russia. Her editing background includes working for major publishing house Pearson as well as newspaper and magazine editing. Currently, Jennifer writes for three magazines and is the founder of 
Carly Cassano is the Editorial Director at Literary Traveler. She began working for Literary Traveler in 2009 as a freelance blogger. Originally from Buffalo, New York, Carly graduated from William Smith college in 2006 with a degree in English. Following an internship at Prometheus Books in Amherst, New York, she moved to Boston and began working as a database content editor for Generate, Inc., a startup acquired by Dow Jones in 2008. She has traveled in the United States and Europe. She plays bassoon in the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and Woodwind Quintet. She enjoys live music, hiking, bicycle riding, reading, writing and talking. She lives in Somerville, MA. 
Katy Kelleher is the Editorial Assistant and blogger at Literary Traveler. She graduated from Bard College, where she majored in Literature and American Studies. She is also the editor of Milkshake Kids. She was formely employed as a Contributor for Gawker Media. For the past three summers, she has worked at the Summerscape Theater Festival as an Assistant Company Manager. Her interests include modern American poetry, ghost stories, the Hudson Valley, and German art and architecture. She lives in Somerville, MA.
Katie Davis is an intern and blogger at Literary Traveler. She is a rising senior at Bucknell University where she majors in Creative Writing and Spanish. This past fall she interned at the West Branch Literary Magazine, a nationally distributed journal published at Bucknell's Stadler Center for Poetry. Katie has recently returned from a semester abroad in Granada, Spain where she was able to study Spanish language and culture as well as travel through out Spain and Europe. During her senior year, Katie plans to write an honors thesis in Creative Writing, possibly incorporating some of her abroad experiences. She currently lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.