Kim Grant
City Expert
Kim Grant grew up near Boston and began taking the commuter train into the city on weekends as soon as she could board trains alone. After landing her first guidebook gig the day after graduating from Mount Holyoke College in 1984, she made a bee-line for Europe, where she traveled for a couple of years on $10 a day. When her money ran out, she settled (as much as moss settles on the proverbial rolling stone) in Boston's North End because it was the neighborhood that most closely resembled Europe. She began writing guidebooks in earnest in 1987. (Remember, the money had run out, but the travel bug still itched.) In need of permanent parking and photographic studio space in 1990, she bought a circa-1900 Victorian in Dorchester, Boston's largest, oldest, and most diverse neighborhood. Her garden is prolific, her fountain oh-so-modern, and her friends tried-and-true. Mildred, her tortoise cat, shares her life with birds.
These days Kim alternates guidebook authoring with being the Acquisitions Editor for Countryman Press (a division of WW Norton); photographing abstract black-and-white images (published under the imprint of Bindu Press); teaching T'ai Chi Chih (which she credits with heightening her creativity and intuition); growing Good Karma Publishing; and hiking, biking, and camping with her delightful partner.
She has appeared on CNN, written for National Geographic Traveler, and had photographs published in Vogue and Travel & Leisure, but it didn't change her personality measurably.
Kim is the author of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket: An Explorer's Guide and Hawaii: An Explorer's Guide; she is the coordinating author or co-author of Lonely Planet New England, Lonely Planet Southwest, Lonely Planet Hawaii, Lonely Planet Florida, and Best Places to Stay in New England. She is also a contributing editor and photographer for Insight New England and Insight Boston.
Her photographs appear in many Lonely Planet, Insight and Explorer's Guides, as well as regional and national travel magazines.
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Jerome Mayer-Cantu
Photographer
Jerome Mayer-Cantu is a photographer for Hawaii, San Francisco, Berlin, and Vienna. Born and raised in California, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 2005 and hopes to study international law in the near future. When Jerome isn't taking photos of pretty places, he can be found researching international law and/or working with various human rights organizations. Jerome has lived in Cairo, Honolulu, and San Francisco. He currently lives in Beirut, where he is a legal advisor for Palestinian and Iraqi refugees. He speaks six languages, likes surfing and playing guitar and is learning to play the ukulele.
Superhero - James Brown. While not a superhero in the traditional sense, one must admit he has powers that verge on the supernatural.
Favorite Food - Jerome refuses to prejudge a food on the basis of its ethnic origins. He embraces food of every background with a passionate love and eternal hunger - although he harbors a particular affinity for Mexican and Thai food. And Gyros.
Preferred Escape - Dhahab, a small bedoiun village/hippie enclave on the Red Sea coast of the Sinai in Egypt. Dhahab is so relaxed that cushions are laid out in beachside restaurants so that guests can fall asleep in the sun after a big meal.
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