Lark Gould

Lark Gould: Award-winning Journalist; Veteran Travel Writer

Lark Gould got her start in journalism the hard way: traveling through wars and famine in the Horn of Africa; embedding with rebel armies, tracing immense and embattled diasporas, catching the stories mainstream media missed. All this in an era before computers, smartphones and social media. Her news clips include the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Providence Journal, Los Angeles Times, AP, UPI, Reuters and many more.

Over the decades she turned her global travel experiences and incisive reporting skills toward covering the travel industry just as the age of mass tourism was just igniting, with beats that included Africa and the Middle East to east Asia, India, the austral Pacific and onward — not forgetting great stories about traveling in America. She has served as a top editor for metros, magazines and several national travel industry journals, and continues to publish her work with regularity in such publishers as Northstar Travel Media and Ink-Global. She is also the author of some ten books — and is soon to publish a nonfiction narrative covering her early years reporting in Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia.

To stay current, Lark continues to hone complementary skills in digital marketing, SEO, and content distribution to assist entrepreneurs in promoting their travel-related products. She holds a master’s degree in editorial journalism and has accrued a solid list of journalism awards. She reports from her office in Los Angeles.