bio & contact

China Williams is a Baltimore-based writer specializing in travel and culture with a recent interest in travelling with kids after two successful trips to Asia with a toddler. She has contributed to numerous Lonely Planet guidebooks, including best-selling Thailand and Southeast Asia on a Shoestring . Other assignments have taken her to such diverse destinations as Malaysia, New York City,  Sumatra, and New Orleans. She has worked on a handy and highly portable walking guide series for Chronicle Books and her articles have appeared in various magazines and newspapers. 

China Williams grew up in South Carolina; earned a philosophy degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland; taught English in Thailand; and has previously worked as an editor for travel, geology, and health publications. Most days she is a full-time mom with  travel writing as a side job and her two-year-old son as a sidekick.

If you are an editor or publisher and would like to commission China Williams for a writing assignment, please send an email to contact@chinawilliams.com. Thanks.