Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins is based in Portland, Ore. and writes about travel and food for a wide range of both mainstream and GLBT publications. He's served as editor or writer/updater on part or all of more than 180 guidebooks for Fodor’s Travel Publications, and he developed and wrote the Fodor's Gay Guide to the USA series in the 1990s. He’s a contributing writer to New Mexico Magazine as well as Four Seasons Magazine, and he produces all content for the website on GLBT travel, GayTravel.About.com. Additionally, he's the editor-in-chief of The Pearl, a quarterly magazine about Portland’s hip Pearl District; he's contributed to Travel + Leisure, The Advocate, and various AAA publications; and he teaches classes on travel writing, food writing, and “how to pitch” for New York City's acclaimed Gotham Writers' Workshop.