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Biography Theresa Dowell Blackinton is a freelance writer based in Durham, North Carolina, specializing in travel and feature articles along with personal essays. Her byline has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Bethesda Magazine, the Washington Post, the San Antonio Express-News, the Boston Globe, and in other print and online outlets. Additionally, she is the author of Moon Outdoors Take a Hike, Washington, D.C., and Moon Kentucky (Spring 2011). For a sampling of her work, visit the Clips section of this Web site. Bluegrass born and bred, Theresa is a Kentuckian at heart. Although she no longer lives in Kentucky, she makes frequent trips home to Louisville and is quick to suggest her favorite restaurant (Ramsi's Cafe on the World), coffee shop (Heine Brothers), museum (Louisville Slugger), and outdoor spot (Bernheim Forest & Arboretum). Theresa attended Rice University in Houston, Texas, majoring in English and German. She spent a year of her undergraduate life in Freiburg, Germany, where she mastered the quirks of German as it is spoken in Baden-Wuerttemberg and became an expert on where to find the best doner kebabs, beer gardens, and bakeries.After graduation, Theresa moved to Athens, Greece, where she was awarded a position as a Teaching Fellow at Athens College. When not teaching English classes, she explored the Greek islands and mainland. (Hint: There's more to Greece than Santorini. If you haven't bought pottery from the town of Armolia on Chios, eaten dinner with a golden kazoo player in the Peloponnese town of Gythio, or taken in the view from one of Meteora's monasteries, then you've hardly seen Greece.) Theresa has set foot on five continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia) and has visited over 45 countries. In 2008, she said adios to her job as an editor at the Smithsonian and her home in Washington, DC, and set off with her husband Jeff on a one-year trip around the world. Among her favorite memories from the trip are hiking the W at Torres del Paine, swimming with sea lions in the Galapagos, eating steak and ice cream every day in Buenos Aires, teaming up with the locals to push our bus out of the mud in Quilotoa, learning Spanish in a home immersion program in Granada, spotting her first lion on safari in Africa, trekking through Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in search of Uganda's mountain gorillas, feeling the love on Likoma Island, exploring Laos via motorbike, learning to ride an elephant like a mahout, earning my scuba diving certification in the Perhentian Islands, and sharing chai with a local teacher in Jaisalmer. Ranking right up with travel on the list of things Theresa loves is writing, she she's fortunate in that she can make a living pursuing her passions. In addition, to travel writing, Theresa also gladly takes on a variety of other writing assignments. She is also an experienced editor, copywriter, proofreader, and indexer, and has produced books, reports, press releases, websites, and ephemera for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, U.S. Holocaust Museum, and The Children's Partnership. To get in touch with Theresa Dowell Blackinton, please visit the Contact page of this Web site. |
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