About John Lamkin, Freelance Journalist
John at Mitla Zapotec ruins - state of Oaxaca MEXICO
photo by Paul Ross John Lamkin is a freelance travel journalist and photographer based in Taos, New Mexico USA and part-time in the Mexican states of Oaxaca & Quintana Roo.
His education was at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, University of California-Los Angeles and the San Francisco Art Institute.
In addition to travel writing, he has done copy writing, technical writing, poetry and has been editor of Camerawork Quarterly, Music of the Spheres magazine and several newsletters. He is editor of Paloma Blanca Press and a consultant in self-publishing and editor of Soul of Travel online magazine.
He is a member of the International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association (IFWTWA) where he serves as Board Member and as Global Membership Chairman, and of the International Travel Writers Alliance (ITWA), and the International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW). He is also a member of MediaBistro's AvantGuild and Travelwriters.com.
He is a Contributing Writer for LuxuryLatinAmerica, Luxury Avenue, Suite101, Northern New Mexico Travel Examiner for Examiner.com, and columnist for The Syndicated News.
John has spent several decades traveling in Latin America and speaks Spanish fluently.
He is readily available for assignment (commission) in Latin America and Southwest USA and elsewhere in the world with some lead time.
NOTE TO EDITORS, PR PEOPLE AND OTHER FRIENDS:
I recently visited Cancún and the southern Yucatan Peninsula where I had a magazine and an online assignment on luxury real estate. I also toured Chihuahua and the Copper Canyon.
I came back with a wealth of material to work with. Please contact me if you are interested in features on this subject or assignments on other subjects.
New: Just returned from Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico with more stories and review of five-star Las Hadas Hotel/Resort.
I'm leaving soon (December 2009) for the Yucatan Peninsula again and then to Cuenca, Ecuador and on to Belize, then to Oaxaca, and will have much more material.
I can be reached by the contact email on this site or johnlamkin(at)gmail.com
Thanks, John