Laurie Gough is the author of the newly-released Stolen Child: A Mother's Journey to Rescue Her Son From Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Dundurn); Kiss the Sunset Pig: An American Road Trip With Exotic Detours (Penguin); and Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman's Travel Odyssey (Travelers' Tales and Random House), shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in the UK, and silver medal winner of ForeWord Magazine's Travel Book of the Year in the US. Over twenty of her stories have been anthologized in literary travel books. She has written for The Guardian, Macleans magazine, USA Today, salon.com, The L.A. Times, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, The National Post, Huffington Post, Canadian Geographic, The Daily Express, and Caribbean Travel+Life, among others. See: www.lauriegough.com